Medical devices are ubiquitous — from thermometers, bandages, and dental floss to blood glucose meters, hearing aids, and complex implantable devices such as pacemakers. The latest cutting-edge examples even extend to apps on tablets and PCs that physicians use to...
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Clinical Development
4 Steps to Implementing DEI in Clinical Trial Design and Patient Recruitment
Welcome to part two of our blog series focused on the integration of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) into clinical research. If you missed part one of the series that highlights recent FDA initiatives and legislative changes behind these developments,...
Clinical Development
FDA’s Push for DEI in Clinical Trials: What Sponsors Need to Know in 2024
In the ever-evolving field of global clinical research, the integration of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) has become a pivotal focus, especially considering recent FDA initiatives and legislative changes. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) ongoing efforts, coupled with...
Medical devices are ubiquitous — from thermometers, bandages, and dental floss to blood glucose meters, hearing aids, and complex implantables such as pacemakers. The latest cutting-edge examples even extend to apps on tablets and PCs that physicians use to help...
The EU Medical Devices Regulation (MDR) was published on May 5, 2017. The impetus behind these new, more rigorous regulations was in part to reflect the substantial technological and scientific advances made by the medical device sector and in part...
In March 2019, the FDA released draft guidance on the design and implementation of natural history studies to support the development of safe and effective treatments for rare diseases. The document, Rare Diseases: Natural History Studies for Drug Development,[1] addresses...
Since it took effect May 25, 2018, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation has been reshaping the way data is handled across every industry sector, including clinical research. The objective of the GDPR is to strengthen and standardize the...
Decades of painstaking research have recently begun to yield gene therapy products that are delivering meaningful benefits to human health. The approvals of voretigene neparvovec-rzyl (Luxturna) for inherited vision loss, tisagenlecleucel (Kymriah) for lymphoblastic leukemia, and axicabtagene ciloleucel (Yescarta) for...
At the beginning of a study, there are a number of steps sponsors and CROs must take to ensure compliance with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation. In this blogpost, we focus on four GDPR articles that are relevant to...
Months before Britons voted narrowly to leave the European Union (EU) in June 2016, then-U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron called a vote to withdraw from “the gamble of the century” and warned of dire political and economic repercussions. More than...