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Sustainable pharmaceuticals
Regulatory Rapporteur July/August 2024 | Volume 21 | No.7 In this bumper July/August edition of Regulatory Rapporteur, we focus on sustainability and, in many aspects, we build upon our June theme of access to medicines. Sustainability in pharmaceuticals encompasses ...
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The global access battle for healthcare equity
Regulatory Rapporteur June 2024 | Volume 21 | No.6 The World Health Organization (WHO) has estimated that one-third of the global population lacks regular access to essential medicines. The concept of access to medicines will likely resonate differently within ...
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Unlocking a new paradigm of healthcare through advanced therapies
Regulatory Rapporteur May 2024 | Volume 21 | No.5 It seems like a recurring theme to start our advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMPs) issue with a familiar message: we are undoubtedly entering a new paradigm of ...
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Improving outcomes with data
Regulatory Rapporteur April 2024 | Volume 21 | No.4 Data, the focus topic for this month’s journal, brings together a range of articles which are underpinned by one uniting factor: our absolute dependence on it. Perhaps, ...
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Diverse and dynamic regulation in the Asia Pacific region
Regulatory Rapporteur March 2024 | Volume 21 | No.3 Our first regionally focused issue for 2024 metaphorically travels to the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. Asia makes up 60% of the global population and there are a large number of regulatory ...
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The increasing complexity of biological medicinal products
Regulatory Rapporteur January 2024 | Volume 21 | No.1 The world of biologics is shifting rapidly. In the more than 40 years since the introduction of the first biosynthetic human insulin in 1982, advances in scientific understanding and biotechnology ...
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Advancing global
healthcare togetherAn annual fixture since 2004, TOPRA’s Symposium is Europe’s premier conference for regulatory affairs professionals with dedicated programme streams for human and veterinary medicines, medical devices and IVDs. This year the Symposium was in Lisbon, in partnership with Infarmed, Portugal’s national authority of medicines and health products.
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Veterinary medicines: the challenges of new regulation
Regulatory Rapporteur October 2023 | Volume 20 | No.9 The October 2023 edition of TOPRA’s journal – Regulatory Rapporteur – focuses on topics and developments specific for veterinary medicines: From the challenging aspects arising ...
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The worldwide web of regulation
In this issue, we focus on the pharmaceutical supply chain and the interaction of this function with regulatory. The supply chain team are the link between the manufacturer and the customer, and they are impacted by the complexity of regulations across different global markets and work with regulatory colleagues to ...
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Equal access to medicines:
finding the balanceRegulatory Rapporteur July/August 2023 | Volume 20 | No.7 This edition of TOPRA’s Regulatory Rapporteur journal explores some of the challenges faced by regulatory professionals around the world; from the African regulatory ecosystems, to health technology assessment (HTA), and the ongoing ...
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Clinical trials:
Ethical, ecological
and economic changeIn the pursuit of global – or even regional – standards in requirements to support medical product development; is industry keeping up? Can regulations and guidelines keep up with the pace of change?
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Mind the gap:
Innovation vs
regulation of ATMPsTechnology has always developed faster than regulation – but the pace at which science is advancing is not being matched by progress of the current regulatory framework which, in stark contrast, is consultative, slow, and regional.
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The region walking the regulatory walk
Latin America (LATAM) is a large market with considerable promise for pharmaceutical growth, with a total potential patient population of more than 600 million people. The landscape in Latin America is changing quickly with demand growing as populations age and chronic diseases become commonplace.
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Setting the right standards
The theme of this issue is global standards but – as the contents reflect – the process by which documents and data become ‘standardised’ is anything but homogeneous or harmonised.
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The need for robust quality management
It is a simple fact that the establishment of a robust quality management system (QMS) can both drive – as well as facilitate – regulatory compliance across all layers of business and operations in the pharma and MedTech industries. However, there is no doubt that the mention of QMS can ...