To date, manufacturers have had three choices when completing a clinical evaluation report (CER): 1) performing a clinical study, 2) performing a clinical literature review, or 3) a combination of performing a clinical study and literature review. However, with the...
Beginning September, 2017, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will require that a single IRB (sIRB) of record be used in the ethical review for all NIH-funded non-exempt, multi-site human subjects research protocols in the United States (NOT-OD-16-094). The sIRB...
On January 18th, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and 15 other federal departments and agencies issued a final rule to revise the federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects. The Policy for the Protection of Human subjects, aka the Common...
In January of 2016, a Phase I drug trial in France, conducted by the French contract research organization Biotrial, left one volunteer dead and five others hospitalized: four with permanent neurological damage. The drug, named BIA 10-2474, is under development, by...
A Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) released 8 Sep 2015 outlines revisions to the Common Rule (45 CFR 46 subpart A) meant to modernize, strengthen, and make it more effective. The most significant changes to the Common Rule proposed in the NPRM are as follows:...
