FDA’s evolving efforts to develop a ‘structured risk-benefit’ framework is playing an important role in accelerating access to drugs for rare diseases and specific subgroups in cancer; there may be less attention to an accompanying phrase that is growing in currency as a factor in the equation: ‘regulatory risk’ – the term for how FDA calculates the odds of making the wrong regulatory decision for a small-population treatment.
FDA is trying to formalize the inherently subjective process of weighing risks against benefits when making a drug approval decision by developing and implementing a structured risk/benefit assessment as a routine part of the review process.
That calculation necessarily relies on relatively formal, quantifiable criteria: an analysis of the condition, current treatment options, summaries of the...
The group had been laid off as part of the 1 April reduction-in-force, which led to missed guidance publication deadlines.
Julian Beach, interim executive director of healthcare quality and access at the UK drug regulator, the MHRA, tells the Pink Sheet how the agency is responding to increased efforts to develop bacteriophage therapies.
The US FDA ended efforts to regulate lab-developed tests as medical devices for now when it did not appeal a decision from the Eastern District of Texas that tossed out the agency's final rule.
The UK regulator wants to help companies to develop bacteriophages for the treatment of infections. Its first guidance on this topic offers advice to researchers and sets out the regulatory requirements they will need to meet.
The group had been laid off as part of the 1 April reduction-in-force, which led to missed guidance publication deadlines.
The developers of the ChAdOx1 NipahB vaccine will be able to benefit from the early and enhanced support that the European Medicines Agency offers through its priority medicines scheme.
The termination of the HHS Secretary’s Committee on Human Research Protections closed an important forum for discussing pediatrics and pregnancy in clinical trial design, a former SACHRP chair said.
