Statement by FDA Commissioner, Director of FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research and Director of FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research on expanded access–looking forward

29 March 2019 - For more than 30 years, the FDA has supported patients’ access to investigational medical products for ...

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Drug makers continue to clamour for FDA approval of orphan drugs

28 March 2019 - Orphan drugs may serve small groups of patients, but they generate big numbers at the Food ...

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FDA takes new steps to advance natural history studies for accelerating novel treatments for rare diseases

22 March 2019 - The U.S. FDA today issued the draft guidance, Rare Diseases: Natural History Studies for Drug Development.  ...

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FDA implements new policies to advance the development of drugs to treat or prevent HIV, including in paediatric patients, as part of efforts to end HIV infection

19 March 2019 - The U.S. FDA today issued two final guidances for industry to help product sponsors understand the ...

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Statement by FDA Commissioner on new strategies to modernise clinical trials to advance precision medicine, patient protections and more efficient product development

14 March 2019 - Modernizing clinical trials is an agency wide priority.  ...

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FDA is working to bridge gaps and meet needs for rare disease product development

28 February 2019 - There are approximately 7,000 rare diseases affecting an estimated 30 million people in the United States.  ...

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Moving upstream in anti-cancer drug development

4 March 2019 - The development of oncology drugs traditionally begins by studying them in heavily pretreated patients, and then working ...

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Drug companies and doctors battle over the future of faecal transplants

3 March 2019 - As pharmaceutical companies seek to profit from the curative wonders of human faeces, doctors worry about new ...

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Treatment effects in multi-centre randomised clinical trials

1 March 2019 - It is common for treatments to be evaluated in clinical trials that involve many sites or centres, ...

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Under representation of elderly in clinical trials: an analysis of the initial approval documents in the FDA database

25 February 2019 - A cross‐sectional, structured review of publicly available initial approval documents of FDA approved drugs was performed.  ...

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Toward an effective innovation agenda

23 January 2019 - Digital technologies have transformed the U.S. and global economies, offering tremendous benefits to consumers and financial success ...

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Modernising clinical trials for patients with cancer

23 January 2019 - Clinical trials involve evaluating and validating new therapies in humans and represent the fundamental means of making ...

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Random-effects meta-analysis: summarising evidence with caveats

22 January 2019 - Questions involving medical therapies are often studied more than once. For example, numerous clinical trials have been ...

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FDA updates guidance on development of rare disease therapies

17 January 2019 - The FDA has revised its draft guidance for developing rare disease treatments to include the use ...

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Challenges of non-intention-to-treat analyses

15 January 2019 - Over the past 5 decades, the randomised clinical trial has become the gold standard for evaluation ...

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