Postmarket Surveillance: Ethics Cited as Critical Weakness

According to a commentary by former Institute of Medicine (IOM) committee members, published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine, increased “fast-tracking” of drug approvals (i.e., for medical conditions with no effective treatment)...

CDER Guidances for Nonclinical Toxicology to Issue in 2012

The FDA has published an updated Guidance Agenda – new and revised draft guidances CDER is planning to publish during calendar year 2012.   Guidances of particular interest to nonclinical pharmaceutical toxicologists may include: Pharmacology/Toxicology •...

Off-label Drug Use: Fact vs. Fiction

The authors – CM Wittich, CM Burkle, and WL Lanier – offer a concise review of the topic of off-label drug use including its definition, prevalence, and implications for drug safety. ربح مال حقيقي من النت    The article format addresses 10 common questions...

FDA Uses Linguamatics to Increase Drug Safety

Linguamatics, the leader in natural language processing (NLP)-based text mining, announced that the Federal Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) has licensed its 12E text mining platform as a discovery and decision support...

Assessing Safety Earlier in Drug Development

The objective of a recent survey by Cambridge Health Associates was to identify trends in safety biomarkers and their utilization in drug development. casino888   Regardless of company size, recurrent themes for assessing drug safety in early preclinical development...