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Challenges of paediatric drug development and impact of paediatric legislation - Volume 21, Issue

Medical writers are increasingly involved in designing and documenting overall plans in paediatric drug development, e.g. EU PIPs (Paediatric Investigation Plans) and individual components, e.g. protocols and study reports. It is essential to…

Drug development and medical writing in the digital world - Volume 28, Issue

Artificial intelligence and digital health open a new chapter in the pharmaceutical industry. The digital technologies improve work efficiency, lower research and development costs, optimise medical research processes, and increase R&D outputs.…

Bad karma - Volume 22, Issue

Bad Pharma provides a hyper-critical account of the pharmaceutical industry's approach to conducting, publishing and using clinical research and development. However, its attack on the drug regulators is unfair and its examination of the medical…

Preclinical research in drug development - Volume 26, Issue

The process of developing a novel drug is time consuming and costly. To increase the chances of successfully completing a clinical trial leading to the approval of a new drug, the choice of appropriate preclinical models is of utmost importance.…

Regulatory pathways for development and submission activities - Volume 28, Issue

This article discusses how different regulatory requirements for a dossier requesting marketing authorisation for a medical drug affect the deliverables from development functions and the submission groups including medical writing. The content of…

Biosimilar development – an overview - Volume 28, Issue

Biosimilars are biological drugs that are similar to, and cheaper than other biological drugs (called “reference originator biologics”) that are already in use. They share an identical amino-acid sequence but, given the inherent variability of…

Statistical principles in biosimilar development - Volume 28, Issue

Unlike new drug development where superiority over an active comparator or placebo often has to be proven, biosimilar development focuses on showing similarity of the proposed biosimilar to an already approved reference product. This affects…

Biostatistics, data management, and medical writing: A multidisciplinary approach to the development of the CTD integrated summaries - Volume 29, Issue

Analyses of integrated databases of efficacy and safety are a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requirement. They are very useful in evaluating the safety and efficacy data gathered in multiple clinical studies. However, their utility is dependent…

Regulatory Writing Developments in paediatric regulation - Volume 22, Issue

Recently, both sides of the Atlantic have seen developments in paediatric regulation. In Europe, the EMA has published a new template for the paediatric investigation plan (PIP), which should help dispel some (but by no means all) doubts and…

Early benefit assessment of new drugs: The impact on healthcare in Germany - Volume 30, Issue

The early benefit assessment of new drugs was introduced in Germany in 2011. The main rationale was to support pricing negotiations between the statutory health insurance (SHI) system and the pharmaceutical industry. The early benefit assessment…

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