• April 2024 – Contents

  • Improving outcomes with data

  • Data quality, governance and sharing to enable insights and decision-making

  • Revolutionising drug development: unveiling the synergy of AI’s regulatory harmony in shaping the future of biopharmaceutical progress

  • Device submissions for combination products: a data-driven perspective

  • Navigating the future of medicinal product data exchange: understanding XEVMPD and its crucial role in regulatory compliance

  • Managing risks: successful clinical development in asthma

  • Choosing the right registration pathway for the China drug master file: an essential analysis of options

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Cutting the use of antibiotics in both humans and animals has shown a reduction in antimicrobial-resistant bacteria.

Utah law to permit non-FDA-approved stem cell therapies

Utah has passed legislation that will allow patients to receive placental stem cell therapies without the need for FDA approval.

Cholera vaccine shortage puts millions at risk

The World Health Organization  has declared a worldwide shortage of the oral cholera vaccine amid an upsurge in cases.

Radio waves used to hijack E.coli bacteria to make medicines

Researchers have developed a method that uses high-frequency radio waves to temporarily open bacterial cell walls to introduce new DNA.

Sponge-on-a-string cuts wait time for Barrett’s diagnosis

A procedure to test for a precancerous condition of the oesophagus, which uses a novel medical device, is under trial in NHS England.

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RegRapPod − April 2024

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Vol.21 #4: In April 2024’s RegRapPod, host Alan Booth talks to Issue Editor James McCormick about all things data.

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RegRapPodIn Conversation with TOPRA’s RegOps SPIN

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BONUS EPISODE: In Conversation with TOPRA’s RegOps SPIN

  • March 2024 – Contents

  • Diverse and dynamic regulation in the Asia Pacific region

  • Navigating the regulatory terrain down under: trends in Australia for 2024

  • Regulatory imperatives in chemistry, manufacturing, and control for biosimilars

  • Can the Japanese phase I study be waived?

  • Overview of digital transformation in healthcare and initiatives in Japan

  • Clinical trial design – keeping up with innovation

  • New data protection for maximum residue limits

  • December 2023 – Contents

  • Advancing global
    healthcare together

  • HM1: Update on EU new regulatory legislation − EMA, industry and others

  • HM2: Improving the odds of regulatory success

  • PS1:
    Health technology assessment –
    the new EU regulation

  • VM1:
    Horizontal legislation and
    veterinary medicine availability

  • VM2: New initiatives in regulatory science

  • MD2/IVD2:
    Medical technologies −
    a catalyst for
    regulatory innovations

  • IVD3: IVDR: Current state

  • TOPRA Annual lecture

  • February 2024 – Contents

  • Sink or swim: the changing tides of device regulation

  • AI meets medtech:
    big opportunities
    require a
    measured approach

  • EU MDR implementation – what is changing for the medical device industry?

  • Chemical characterisation: a critical first step for medical device development

  • The rise of FemTech and why compliance is key to its success

  • Overview of medical device regulations in Canada

  • China drug master file: registration pathways and requirements

  • November 2023 – Contents

  • Editorial - November 2023

  • Overview of importation
    strategy from an
    FDA perspective
    – PLAIR vs FTZ

  • A harmonised approach to clinical data standards

  • Controlled substances development – past, present, and future

  • Access consortium: in the current submission transmission ecosystem

  • Transitioning from paper to electronic IFU for EU MDR 2017/745

  • Medical device standards update: November 2023

  • January 2024 – Contents

  • The increasing complexity of biological medicinal products

  • Navigating early drug development investment: a detailed guide to due diligence

  • A weight of evidence approach for the non-clinical evaluation of complex biologicals

  • Innovating and harmonising access and requirements amid the global regulatory challenges of biologics

  • Cell and gene therapy – navigating complexities in CMC development for optimisation of global regulatory strategies

  • The changing face of oncology development – is cancer still ‘different’? A US perspective

  • Artificial intelligence in drug discovery

  • October 2023 – Contents

  • Veterinary medicines: the challenges of new regulation

  • Transition to the new QRD template for veterinary medicines: challenges and opportunities

  • Autogenous vaccines under Regulation (EU) 2019/6

  • Prequalification of veterinary vaccines and medicines

  • EMA activities related to antiparasitic veterinary medicinal products

  • Optimal materials selection in medical device development – a proactive biocompatibility approach

  • Australian PM makes thalidomide apology on 62nd anniversary

  • ICMRA regulators to mark its 10th year at event in Australia

  • European Parliament gives first stage approval for revised EMA fees

  • Northern Ireland deal permits GB medicines but not medical devices

  • UK set to accept CE mark for medical devices until 2028