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)...

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...

Drug Safety: IOM Pharmacovigilance Report

An Institute of Medicine (IOM) committee report, recommends that the FDA take proactive steps to continue monitoring drug safety after initial approval and throughout the market lifecycle.   Post-market evidence is far greater than what the FDA has when deciding upon...

FDA Strengthens the Science of Regulatory Safety

In order to keep our competitive edge, the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) is placing increased emphasis on strengthening both the field and application of regulatory science relative to pharmaceutical research, development, review, and post-market surveillance. ...

FDA Sentinel Initiative: Public / Private Postmarketing Surveillance

All medical products pose risks and postmarketing surveillance is critical to expanding the limited evidence base that exists when new drug products are approved. how long will ivermectin stay in your system   Through initiation of the Sentinel Initiative (May 2008),...

New FDA Transparency Impacts Drug Safety

In the FDA’s effort to make both its decisions and clinical trial data more transparent to the public, Agency decisions have become more available for public debate.  Sophisticated analyses (increasingly by third parties) of publically available data may present...