Clinical Trials


Japan Adopts Early Approval Scheme For Infectious Disease Drugs

Japan Adopts Early Approval Scheme For Infectious Disease Drugs

 
• By 

Japan has implemented a streamlined regulatory system designed to enable speedier approvals of selected drugs for designated categories of infectious diseases, which does not require Japanese clinical data.

Korea Can Play To Strengths But Also Improve Regulatory Flexibility For Clinical Trials

Korea Can Play To Strengths But Also Improve Regulatory Flexibility For Clinical Trials

 
• By 

A session at the recent KoNECT conference in Seoul looked at Korea’s strengths in clinical trials but also at what's needed to further improve its global competitiveness as a location for studies.

Chinese Regulator Raises Red Flag On Clinical Trial Bribery

Chinese Regulator Raises Red Flag On Clinical Trial Bribery

 

China has proposed new guidelines designed to head off potential bribery by pharma companies related to the conduct of clinical studies and possible manipulation of outcomes.

UK Toolkit To Accelerate Research Set-Up Across England, NI, Scotland And Wales

UK Toolkit To Accelerate Research Set-Up Across England, NI, Scotland And Wales

 

The Health Research Authority says its new toolkit explains the differences and similarities in the research approval and set-up processes across the four UK nations so that researchers and sponsors are clear on what they need to do if they want to conduct a study in more than one of the countries.