FSSAI (FOOD SAFETY AND STANDARDS AUTHORITY OF INDIA) has published gazette to regulate the Advertising and Claims made by companies on the food products in India. Food Safety and Standards (Advertising and Claims) Regulations, 2018
Exploring Future Trends in Clinical Research
Indian Society for Clinical Research (ISCR) in collaboration with Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals is organising a Workshop on “Exploring Future Trends in Clinical Research” on 30 Nov 2018. Here is the agenda for the meeting.
Healthcare Nanotechnology (Nanomedicine) From Inception to Dominance
INTRODUCTION Nanotechnology is clearly a concept whose time has come. Five years ago, little was known about the technology outside specialist circles. Yet it is now being promoted in the scientific and popular press as a major technological breakthrough, heralding…
Drug Pooling – A Strategy To Significantly Reduce Overages
Our industry has a 200% drug supply overage problem in clinical trials. Study organizers often supply individually per study, some of which are complex or multi-phase studies. Many study sponsors tend to package “too much” or “too early,” to be…
Clinerion and S4 Research Partner to Accelerate the Introduction of Innovative Medical Treatments to India
Clinerion and S4 Research announce a partnership to expand the global network of hospitals on the Clinerion’s Patient Network Explorer platform into India. International pharmaceutical companies will be able to match their leading-edge clinical trials to patients in India. …
Novotech and CNS Deal Expands CRO Services for Biopharma Clients Across Asia-Pacific
Novotech the largest Asia-Pacific-based CRO has acquired Australasian specialist CRO Clinical Network Services (CNS) as part of a mutual mission to expand services to biopharma for early phase product development and clinical research through to later phase regional and global trials.…
Number of UK clinical trials in decline since Brexit vote
Ongoing uncertainty and concern about Brexit has already cut the number of clinical trials carried out in the UK. The number of drug trials started in Britain in 2017 was a staggering 25% lower than the average for 2009-2016. A…
Drug firms retaining old brand names for new medicines
Pharma firms prefer to go with the existing brand names for new fixed dose combinations (FDCs) as it is easier to market them What’s in a name? A lot, according to pharmaceutical companies, many of whom have already launched or…
Half of EU Clinical Trial Results Not Reported
Despite EU requirements for clinical trials to report results to the EU Clinical Trials Register within a year of a trial’s completion, sponsors have only reported about half of them so far. The analysis, led by University of Oxford researcher…
Clinical Trials: There’s an App for That
When Apple introduced the latest iteration of its Apple Watch earlier this month, it was hailed by an unlikely source: FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb. “The FDA worked closely with the company as they developed and tested these software products, which…
