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When Worlds Collide: The Theory of Real-World Evidence Meets Reality

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

FDA has even gone so far as to maintain that the “real-life clinical performance of a medical product might be more clearly demonstrated through RWD/RWE because a controlled clinical trial often cannot evaluate all applications of a product in clinical practice across the full range of potential users.”

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How Many Clinical Trials Are Run by CROs?

Vial

Contract research organizations (CROs) are an integral partner of the drug development process, as they play a pivotal role supporting clinical trial conduct for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device sponsor companies. That is, how many clinical trials are actually managed by these organizations?

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The Biotech Startup Contraction Continues… And That’s A Good Thing

LifeSciVC

While it may help shake out some incremental advances for the therapeutic armamentarium, this dynamic also clearly creates inefficiencies and waste – both in terms of capital deployment, but also for patients’ engagement and clinical trial activity. Fewer startups over time should ameliorate this crowding dynamic to some extent.

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Wearables, Sensors, and Apps Part 1 – Updates on FDA’s PDUFA VII Goals for the Use of Digital Health Technologies in Drug and Biological Product Development

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

DHTs have been used in clinical trials for decades in the context of measurements made when participants visit clinical trial sites. DHTs have been used in clinical trials for decades in the context of measurements made when participants visit clinical trial sites.

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Article EMA Thank You Updated EUDAMED roadmap projects mandatory use of some processes as early as December 2025

Agency IQ

Ultimately, this module will interact with CTIS , the drug clinical trial information system. The independent auditing schedule showed publication of full functionality in mid-2027. Another notable challenge has been development of the clinical investigation and performance study module (CI/PS).

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Amgen Named To Dow Jones Sustainability World Index For Eighth Consecutive Year

The Pharma Data

.” Amgen’s four ESG pillars – Healthy People, Healthy Society, Healthy Environment and a Healthy Amgen – include commitments to: Achieve carbon neutrality by 2027, along with a 40% reduction in water used and a 75% reduction in waste disposed.

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AI-Designed Drugs vs. Traditional Drug Discovery: Pros and Cons

Vial

billion by 2027 , at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 45.7% As a result of this shorter timeline, AI-designed drugs also offer the potential to reduce the cost of drug discovery because the traditional process of drug discovery typically involves expensive and time-consuming clinical trials to evaluate promising compounds.

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