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Why Should GDPR Matter to all Clinical Research Firms?

Why Should GDPR Matter to all Clinical Research Firms?

Since the beginning of 2018, there has been a growing interest from pharmaceutical and biotech firms in the United States regarding the basic tenets of the European Union’s (EU) new General Data Protections Regulation (GDPR) law. With more than 50 percent of all...

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Start plain language summaries early or get left behind

Start plain language summaries early or get left behind

In July 2019, the European Union (EU) Clinical Trial Regulation No. 536/2014 will go into effect, requiring all sponsors, including academia, conducting clinical trials to draft lay or plain language summaries for phase 2-4 clinical trials. These lay summaries need to...

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FDA Furthers Transparency Push with CSR Release Pilot

FDA Furthers Transparency Push with CSR Release Pilot

The FDA provided insight into their overall vision for clinical trial transparency last week, announcing a new program to publicly release clinical study reports (CSRs) that accompany drug approval submissions. They plan to pilot nine recently-approved drugs (yet to...

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Big Improvements in Clinical Trial Transparency Compliance

Big Improvements in Clinical Trial Transparency Compliance

Bioethics International recently published their second, long-promised Good Pharma Scorecard, a ranking of large biopharmaceutical companies’ compliance with disclosing data for new medicines to public registries, in BMJ Open. With this recent publication, a spotlight...

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