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Drug approval falls in 2013
Uk.reuters.com just released an article about the lackluster number of approved drugs by FDA in 2013. In 2013 only 27 were approved vs. 39 in 2012, which was the most since 1997. FDA attributed the large decrease to fewer applications in 2013 which was down from 41 to...
New clinical trial platforms to help Alzheimer’s
News-medical.net just released an article on the recently launched Global Alzheimer’s Platform (GAP). This program strives to cut time and costs on Alzheimer’s trials. The article cites that Alzheimer’s treatment development costs up to three times the normal cost of...
Electronic tools the future of biopharma’s clinical trial files
Nick Paul Taylor from fiercebiotechit.com provides a unique look at how biopharma companies are moving from paper clinical trial data to electronic files. The article talks about how many vendors are now pushing the electronic filing method for a variety of reasons...
Quintiles produces new screening checklist
Zachary Brennan from outsourcing-pharma.com just published an article on Quintiles’ Good Research for Comparative Effectiveness (GRACE) checklist. It was published in a peer–review study in March and contains 11 checkpoints for data and research methods that will help...
Sicker patients in clinical trials the new status quo
David David Pittman from medpagetoday.com has written an article on FDA’s push to include sicker patients in clinical trials. In the article David brings up the new internal memo that requests drug reviewers to push for a broader population in trials. By doing this it...