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France’s simplification bill is a “first step” to improving the country’s clinical research environment, but more could be done to drive decentralized trials and simplify processes, says Leem, the French pharmaceutical industry association.

The European Medicines Agency’s innovation network has recommended how the EU’s regulatory framework could be updated to support drug developers in using new approach methodologies, which are drug testing methods that reduce or replace animal studies.

A new European initiative will help trial sponsors better understand whether digitization and decentralized clinical trials of drugs generate less carbon than traditional methods.

A first-of-its-kind review of clinical trial applications submitted to the UK medicines regulator, the MHRA, shows there is a concentration of research in certain disease areas and identifies opportunities to enhance the representation of specific patient groups.