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Recap of the DIA Annual Meeting 2011

The 47th Annual DIA Meeting was held on 19-23 June 2011 in Chicago and was a great success with thousands of attendees from the health care industry and regulators from around the world including representatives from the FDA, the EMA, … Continue reading

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2010 New Drug Approvals

The U.S. FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) approved 21 new products in 2010 – slightly less than the previous year’s 24 – plus 5 biologics approved by CBER. In light of the FDA’s continued focus on drug safety, I am not surprised that the number isn’t higher. A full list of approvals can be found here.

While the list isn’t long, a few new products stand out to me. Continue reading

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Bookmarks – Collapsed or Expanded?

At Cato Research, part of our standard document preparation work for eCTD submission documents is to save every PDF file with the bookmarks collapsed (i.e. only the top level bookmark is visible when the document is opened).  We’re often asked … Continue reading

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FDA Forms Biosimilar Work Group

In the end we are all separate: our stories, no matter how similar, come to a fork and diverge. We are drawn to each other because of our similarities, but it is our differences we must learn to respect. – … Continue reading

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FDA-TRACK – The FDA’s FDA-Tracking System

Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist. – George V. Higgins In another move on its transparency initiative, the FDA has recently announced a new program to publicly track its own performance.  It’s called FDA-TRACK and, in the … Continue reading

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