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How can the pharma industry address the gap in talent recruitment and development?

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If not internally, such specialist training programmes can be outsourced to third-party organisations, whether that involves pharmaceuticals, in vitro diagnostics (IVDs) or QP training. This has resulted in staff and talent shortages, meaning that industries have been forced to respond quickly to stay afloat. Harness technology.

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Considerations for Mobile Health Technology Developers: Part 1

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In Part 1 of this series, general wellness devices and mobile medical applications (MMAs) will be considered. Part 2 of this series will be devoted to clinical decision support (CDS) software. The FDA’s General Approach to Regulating mHealth Products. When assessing mHealth technology, the FDA will determine whether an application is either: i.

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It’s My Party and I’ll Cry if I Want to: A Bittersweet Happy 30th Birthday to LDTs

FDA Law Blog

If anything, the announcement was remarkably inconspicuous: a seemingly throwaway sentence in a draft compliance policy guide for research use only and investigational use only products. These products are subject to the same regulatory requirements as any unapproved medical device”).

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A Question 30 Years in the Making: Would a Final LDT Rule Withstand Judicial Scrutiny?

FDA Law Blog

The PR first sets out to establish that it has authority to regulate in vitro diagnostic “test systems” as devices, and not just the system’s individual components, such as reagents, instruments, specimen collection devices, and software.

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A Final LDT Rule in April!? Will FDA be prepared?

FDA Law Blog

FDA’s assumption that 50% of the tests will be exempt is particularly baffling because the laboratories are ones licensed to perform high complexity tests. Mullen — With comments due on the proposed LDT rule last week, FDA wasted no time updating the Unified Agenda to indicate that a final rule may be published in April ( here ).

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BetterLife Engages Eurofins Discovery for its Next Generation Psychedelics 2-bromo-LSD FDA IND-enabling Pharmacology Studies

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Eurofins Discovery will be conducting the IND-enabling in-vitro preclinical primary pharmacology and safety pharmacology studies on TD-0148A at its state-of-the-art facilities at Eurofins Cerep, DiscoverX and Panlabs. FDA Investigational New Drug (“IND”)-enabling pharmacology studies. About BetterLife Pharma: BetterLife Pharma Inc.

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Considerations for Mobile Health Technology Developers: Part 2

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Such non-device CDS are: (1) not intended to acquire, process, or analyse a medical image or a signal from an in vitro diagnostic device or a pattern or signal from a signal acquisition system (Criterion 1); (2) intended for the purpose of displaying, analysing, or printing medical information about a patient or other medical information (e.g.