The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued new draft guidance, Considerations for the Design and Conduct of Externally Controlled Trials for Drug and Biological Products (the “External Controls Draft Guidance”), that...more
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently issued a proposed rule that would extensively modify and modernize its current regulations governing the protection of human subjects and Institutional Review Boards (IRBs).1 If...more
In December 2016, fifteen Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials, including then-Commissioner Robert Califf and current Acting Commissioner Janet Woodcock, published an article in the New England Journal of Medicine...more
On January 19, 2017, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and fifteen other Federal departments and agencies published a final rule that extensively revises and modernizes the Federal Policy for the Protection of...more