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Key Takeaways | Clinical Research Technology (ClinTech)

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During this session, the panelists discussed how stakeholders in the clinical research market can leverage new technologies to better identify subjects, optimize trial conduct and reduce costs. For example, common use cases...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

In This Month’s E-News: May 2024

Some funding applications submitted to NIH beginning Jan. 25 will face new requirements and undergo a revised peer review process. To prepare investigators and institutions, NIH launched a dedicated website with details about...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Biden Administration Doubles Down on Investment in Women’s Health

On March 18, the Biden Administration announced that it is doubling down on its commitment—previously announced during President Biden’s State of the Union address—to transform women’s health research and improve the lives of...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

EU and Germany Lay Groundwork for the Use of Medical Data for Research and AI Training

Both the EU and Germany are taking significant steps to accelerate digitalization in the health sector and facilitate the exchange and use of health data for research and innovation purposes. They aim to improve...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

‘If Only She Could Have Been Stronger’: Miami Trial Fraud Leads to Prison, Personal Loss

In September 2015, while working in an office on the grounds of Mercy Hospital in Miami, Ivette Maria Portela Martinez learned about an upcoming clinical trial for treatment of symptoms of Clostridium difficile infections and...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

February 29, 2024: The “Rarest Day of the Year”

Rare Disease Day took place on February 29, 2024. Created in 2008, Rare Disease Day is observed on the “rarest day of the year”—February 29 in leap years (February 28 in non-leap years)—as a way to galvanize the global rare...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

HHS Addresses the Growing Influence of Artificial Intelligence in Health Care

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a major player in the realm of health care, promising to completely transform­ its delivery. With AI’s remarkable ability to analyze data, learn, solve problems, and make decisions,...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Pill Politics: Unveiling Biden’s Bold Blueprint for Affordable Drugs

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On December 7, 2023, the Biden administration announced a blueprint for a framework that may be a tough pill to swallow for the pharmaceutical industry. This framework suggests that drug prices should be a crucial factor in...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

In This Month’s E-News: December 2023

Report on Research Compliance 20, no. 12  (December 2023) Although the National Science Foundation (NSF) allowed more than half the costs questioned by auditors for its Office of Inspector General (OIG), the California...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

The Real Challenges That Stop Hospitals From Integrating Clinical Trials Into Clinical Care

Editor’s Note: In the autumn issue of the Clinical Research as a Care Option (CRAACO) newsletter, an interview with Manatt Health’s Donna O’Brien gives pharma readers insight into how hospitals view trials, some of the...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

‘No More Boutique Studies’: NIH Mulls ‘Stopping Rules,’ Other Changes to Improve Clinical Trials

At some point in the future, NIH may halt funding for clinical trials deemed too underpowered to produce meaningful findings or that fail to meet enrollment goals. To do this, the agency would have to adopt so-called...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

New FDA Draft Guidance Updates Recommendations for Good Clinical Practices

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently published a draft of its updated Good Clinical Practice (GCP) guidance for modernizing clinical trials. The draft guidance will be open for public comment for 60 days from...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Is CMS Ignoring the Realities of Biopharmaceutical Costs?

On March 15, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released guidance on the drug price negotiations provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The guidance contains CMS’s interpretations for a range of...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Heartburn for Valisure: Controversial Testing Lab Under Fire

In early December, a federal judge tossed plaintiffs’ expert evidence and dismissed some 2,450 lawsuits in the sprawling litigation involving the heartburn medication Zantac. U.S. District Judge Robin L. Rosenberg’s December...more

Allen Matkins

Life Sciences Real Estate Update - 2.08.23

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Last year’s solid venture capital investment in life sciences was, as expected, focused on the big three markets of San Diego, Boston, and San Francisco. But as a recent Cushman & Wakefield report found, emerging markets saw...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Research Compliance Volume 19, Number 12. In This Month’s E-News: December 2022

The Council on Governmental Relations (COGR) is sounding an alarm regarding costs institutions have expended to comply with “new and clarified provisions calling for researchers to disclose all sources of research support and...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

New FDA Draft Guidance Encourages Industry Focus on Improving Clinical Trial Diversity

Last week, in the midst of the Biden Administration’s coordinated release of more than 90 “Equity Action Plans” by various federal agencies, the FDA issued a new draft guidance on enhancing clinical trial diversity. In a...more

AEON Law

Patent Poetry: Dispute over COVID Vaccine Shows Importance of Inventorship

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Moderna has been engaged in a patent dispute with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) over whether three NIH scientists should be named as inventors for discovering the genetic sequence that’s central to the vaccine. ...more

Knobbe Martens

Researchers Develop Blood Clot Test Based on Single Drop of Blood

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The University of Washington announced that a team of researchers has developed a prothrombin time/international normalized ratio (PT/INR) blood clotting test that requires only a single drop of blood and a smartphone....more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Research Using De-Identified Specimens: A Reminder from FDA

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On October 18, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a letter reminding developers of in vitro diagnostics (IVDs) that institutional review board (IRB) approval is required before initiating a clinical investigation...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

[Webinar] Digital Health: Disruptive Technology or Just a Disruption? - October 23rd, 1:00 pm ET

The digital health market is projected to reach $536.6 billion by 2025 and transform every aspect of healthcare. Which advances hold true potential and which are just hype? Find out at a new Manatt webinar. Digital...more

Hogan Lovells

Four new FDA guidances and proposed rule advance biosimilars policy framework

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Yesterday, FDA released a series of guidances that aim to advance the agency’s biosimilars policy framework, along with a proposed rule on the definition of a “biological product,” which incorporates changes made by the...more

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Welcome to the real world: FDA issues long-awaited framework for evaluating the potential use of real-world evidence to support...

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On December 6, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a framework for its Real-World Evidence (RWE) Program to strategically leverage information gathered from real-world data (RWD): data that relates to patient...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Three Pressing Challenges for Personalized Medicine

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Personalized medicine can be described as the science of targeted therapies. Advances in diagnostic and molecular medicine have made it possible to more precisely identify alternative treatment options for patients based on...more

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