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Cardiovascular Clinical Trials with Patient Diversity: Challenges and Considerations

XTalks

Cardiovascular clinical trials need to have a diversity plan because there can be a difference in disease burden when comparing people of different race and ethnicity. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is emphasizing the need for diversity in clinical trials. The Diversity of the US Population.

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An Evolving Regulatory Environment for Rare and Orphan Diseases

Advarra

Orphan drugs have historically faced a number of barriers, such as limited research and development (R&D) investment due to an expected lack of profitability as well as challenges in clinical trial design and recruitment. Before 1983, only 38 orphan drugs had received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval.

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Mathematical model can speed up Alzheimer’s drug development

Drug Discovery World

By simulating the drug’s performance in individual patients, they rapidly modelled the outcome of short-term (78 weeks) and long-term (10 years) treatments and discovered that when treatment begins by age 60, it’s possible to reduce cognitive decline by five percent.

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FDA Cracks Down on ClinicalTrials.gov Reporting Failures

FDA Law Blog

On April 28, FDA issued its first Notice of Noncompliance for failure to submit required clinical trial results information to ClinicalTrials.gov. The “responsible party” is the sponsor or principal investigator of the trial. The notice was given to Acceleron Pharma, Inc., 42 C.F.R. §§ 11.10, 11.44(a). 42 U.S.C. §

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Vicore initiates clinical proof-of-concept study of endothelial dysfunction 

Drug Discovery World

Official comments “Measuring endothelial dysfunction with the EndoPAT technology in drug trials is a cost-effective and robust method for early documentation of proof-of-concept in pulmonary, renal and vascular diseases” says Elin Rosendahl, VP Clinical Operations, Vicore Pharma.

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Reimagining Clinical Trials: Why are Virtual Clinical Trials Becoming the New Normal?

Delveinsight

Clinical trials are an essential part of the drug development process. Worldwide, more than 2 million clinical trials are registered and the number is steadily increasing over the past several years. The conduct of trials was not possible due to the risk of catching coronavirus. Why the Need?

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FDA Cracks Down on ClinicalTrials.gov Reporting Failures

FDA Law Blog

Butler — On April 28, FDA issued its first Notice of Noncompliance for failure to submit required clinical trial results information to ClinicalTrials.gov. The “responsible party” is the sponsor or principal investigator of the trial. The notice was given to Acceleron Pharma, Inc., 42 C.F.R. §§ 11.10, 11.44(a).