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Dear Dr. Noura H. Abou-Taleb,
I hope this email finds you well.
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The IIERD Conference, https://www.iierd.org. This website is full of predatory conferences. Don't trust or even contact them. The email they use to advertise or contact is info@iierd.org, and WhatsApp has an Indian phone number: +91 93445 35349. Be aware.
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Give in detail with available literature and website links for submissions
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When planning a randomized, double-blind trial with multiple arms, there are often challenges for blinding the study treatment/groups due to different formulations/packaging/dosage.
E.g. Study groups
1. treatment A- (spray bottle)
2. treatment B- (drops)
3. treatment C- (drops)
4. Active comparator- (drops)
5. Placebo- (both options possible- spray bottle/drops)
Instead of a double-dummy approach, can we follow group blinding with two or more blinding practices in the same trial?
One blinding group is for treatment A and Placebo as spray bottles.
The blinding second group is for Treatment B and C and Active as drops.
The objective of blinding is to keep the subject and investigator/study team unaware of the treatment assigned, and the same can still be met with the above (with certain limitations of course...)
If you know of any reference trial with such an approach, kindly share.
Thanking you in anticipation.
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Dear Dr. Parikh,
Many thanks for your challenging question. After reading and consulting, I want to tell you some points that hope will be as helpful as possible.
Yes, you can have two or more blinding methods; however, please pay attention to the aims you are looking for. It seems that in this double-blind trial, two situations can occur as follows.
1) In the first situation, a group of patients is told that if they agree, they will randomly receive one of the treatments under study (T.A, T.B, or T.C), an active comparator, or a placebo in the form of a spray. An observer is assigned to this group, who observes and records the outcomes after the patients receive the spray, while does not know whether the spray is T.A or placebo. Therefore, neither the patients nor the observer know about the contents of the spray, so double-blind occurs.
2) In the second situation, another group of patients is told that if they agree, they will randomly receive one of the treatments under study (T.A, T.B, or T.C), an active comparator, or a placebo in the form of a drop. Another observer is assigned to this group, who observes and records the outcomes after the patients receive the drop, while does not know whether the drop is T.B, T.C, active comparator, or placebo. Therefore again, neither the patients nor the observer know about the contents of the spray, so double-blind occurs.
However, please note that the only unblinding can occur is that the observer of the group receiving the drops realizes that, for example, the form of spray generally works better than the form of drop, and thus records and reports the unpleasant outcomes of the drops slightly higher. In this sense, information bias may occur. However, observers in each situation cannot differentiate between treatment, placebo, and/or active comparator.
​It would be my pleasure if I have​ comments on this discussion​.
Best regards,
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I'm a medical writer, and recently, I've finished a GCP course. I wanted to know more about regulatory documents such as study protocol, investigator brochure, Informed consent, etc. I wanted to know how they are written and have a look at their formats because I'm interested in this field. Can someone guide me on how to find these documents?
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Hello,
This may be a helpful source of e-learning
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Alphonce Nsabi Simbila
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Can anyone explain what is the actual difference between pharma grade material and a cosmetic grade material to be utiliized in a topical product. Since both these materials can be used on skin why there is double standard? It will be great if someone could explain this. 
Thanks in advance 
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For food, drug, or medicinal use we can use only ACS/Reagent/USP grade chemicals. As LR grade is supposed to be only for teaching and educational purpose even these chemicals are not so pure to be used for food, drug, or medicinal.
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In Pharmaceutical professional fields such as Regulatory Affairs or Product Development it is of much importance to know the innovator of a product for obvious reasons. But it is not a very simple task using commonly used search engines. I was wondering if any one has a better way to search for them, like a data bank or something.
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What are five main issues should be taken into consideration to boost the development of Islamic Banking and Finance today?
Regulatory, product development, shariah compliance, human resource, etc...
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1. In my opinion, the first priority is educating the masses about conventional banking products in comparison with Islamic banking (Shariah-compliant) products, clearing their doubts and wrong perceptions (of back end procedures and mechanisms stay the same and its only change of name of a particular product)
2.Gain support from government and regulatory authorities
3. Develop innovative, competitive and customer-friendly products supporting high penetration and financial inclusion. (an investment or banking product that is understandable to a layman, different and better from conventional counterparts
4. Make of the technology (trends in Blockchain & cryptography)
5. Compliance with Local and International Standards
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ICH Guidelines, 
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ICH basically provides a common set of guidance documents for submission of dossiers to ICH member countries. It harmonizes the process, as earlier each country had its own set of regulations and formats for dossier submission in order to achieve marketing authorisation in the respective country. ICH tries to bring these countries on the same page to make the filing process smooth.
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Discuss the suitability of current regulations for biotechnology medicinal products globally under the following four topics:
(i) Fitness for purpose
(ii) Impact on, and response to innovation
(iii) Impact on the access of medicines to patients
(iv) Any other suitable topic(s)
You should provide, where relevant, examples and identify the regulations
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Thanks Bruce :)
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Just curious about why this is. 
Every source/documentation on 3DSlicer warns to use it only for (medical) research because it is not FDA approved. Why would this be, doesn't the FDA deal with approval of these image analysis softwares? (seems unlikely) Or does it lack specific elements required to get approved? Or for other reasons?
If anyone can satisfy my curiosity here, I'm very thankful, you are approved by me ;)
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You would get more answers to this question on the slicer-users mailing list, but I can describe a few reasons here:
1. For researchers, it is much easier to get permission to use 3D Slicer on patients through institutional review board (IRB) approval.
2. Most companies already have their own custom FDA-approved software applications and they keep improving that instead of start using 3D Slicer as the basis of their product. It is partly due to historical reasons (3D Slicer has become so robust and powerful only in the last couple of years) and there is a misconception that 3D Slicer is "big" (while actually it is not big at all - VTK, a toolkit that is used by 3D Slicer and many FDA-approved clinical applications, is about 10x larger than 3D Slicer core)
It would be helpful to get FDA approval for certain uses of 3D Slicer, as it would make it easier for researchers to get IRB approval for using 3D Slicer in higher-risk use cases, and for companies to get FDA approval for using 3D Slicer in their products. Therefore, there is an ongoing effort to get grant funding for FDA submission preparation for 3D Slicer.
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This article discusses the intrusion of federal law into the corporate governance area - an area that was previously the bailiwick of state law. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 ("SARBOX") and Dodd-Frank are two prominent examples of this intrusion. Both Acts have as their purpose protection of the public -- the investing public in the case of SARBOX and consumers (as users of products and of credit) in the case of Dodd-Frank. Does creating a public good like "restoring investor confidence" justify federal intrusion into the corporate governance area? It should be kept in mind that SARBOX applies to all corporations listed on American stock exchanges; hence, it has long-arm jurisdiction to reach multinational corporations that are not incorporated in the U.S.
Gwen
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Dear Gwendolyn,
You are welcome! To be honest, so much has been published on corporate governance in support of what is generally accepted conventional wisdom, that I really appreciate to study a new view point as that of Pargendler, even if I may disagree in detail.
Paul
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I am conducting a study on evaluation of ECD policy implementation and quality service delivery. Therefore, looking for a tool which would help me to quantify quality of the pre-schools environment in Murang'a Kenya
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Kindly reach out to Dr. John Ng'asike of Mount Kenya University, Early Childhood Studies Department , Thika Main Campus for assistance. He is a specialist.
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Regulatory regime on biosafety have been developed to keep safe the world from manipulated bioproducts but how much this rule is being followed?
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they are insuficient and their application even worse
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There is a limited regulatory framework for herbal trials in many countries. What is your experience?
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Great, thanks! I recognize this work and have had a chance to discuss it with your collaborators on my contact visit at Oxford.
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When first conceptualized by Stanley R Kay and myself in 1980, we anticipated that the PANSS would be valuable as both a research and clinical tool (this is clearly stated in all versions of the PANSS Manual published initially in 1992 by MultiHealth Systems Inc)--while its rapid acceptance for clinical trials made it familiar to researchers, clinicians wrongly assumed that this was a research tool only.  Stanley Kay died in 1990, leaving me (metaphorically) alone to raise our child; I have of course had help from numerous others but remain perplexed re: how to get clinicians and clinical systems of care to use the PANSS as an outcome measure.
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We have used the PANSS interview in our TIPS research project - a first episode of psychosis project, but clinically we use the PANSS as a way of measuring remission and relapse in our OPUS treatment of first episode psychosis in Region Zealand, Denmark. All our clinical staff are trained in using this instrument, which is applied severel times during the 2 year treatment period. Also we use it as a screening tool for psychosis in our detection team in our TOP project, which combines an information campaign with very quick assessment of people responding on our hotline - usually within two - four days.
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I intend to evaluate the quality of few commercial antibiotic preparations in lab against known bacteria. But to keep myself on right track, I need some workflow document to follow the required steps. We can use the disc diffusion or/and agar dilution method. The aim is to confirm that antibiotic preparation contains sufficient conc. of active antibiotic or not?
Thanks
Asi
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You can follow gudelines of CLSI, or there are documents of EUCAST and BSAC available online at:
You can find there also acceptable MIC limits for antibiotics against recommended quality control strains
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 Should we take the legal permission? If yes please guide me.
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In the United States, each institution has an Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) that is responsible for reviewing and approving protocols for in vivo experiments, among other responsibilities.
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Does anyone know, if global pharmaceutical/biotech companies/NIH, USA/USFDA, NGOs, etc. will be willing to give/sell us small amounts (mg quantity) of their small molecule compounds (NCEs), where possible toxicity issues hampered their clinical development as cancer therapeutics? We are interested in further exploring Toxicogenomics and mechanism-of-actions of these NCEs in a mouse model of breast cancer? Even NCEs which failed in clinical development against other cancers will be of great research interest to us.
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Orphan products could be expensive and generics desired. But many are indicated in severe rare or ultra-rare children conditions making difficult to recruit a homogenous sample, and are not free of side events. Furthermore, the original PK data can be limited. Will comparison in healthy adults be acceptable?
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There is no modified release formulation of the study drug in the market. How can I proceed according to EU guidelines?
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a true modified release formulation cannot be expected to be bioequivalent to an immediate release formulation. that is like comparing i.v. injection vs. s.c.. if you are the first to formulate your study drug as modified release, a BE study is not suitable unless you just want to know how much your new formulation differes from the conventional one
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In recent years, pharma companies had become implicated in global politics as never before. Inequitable drug prices, persisting diverences in national regulatory approaches, and debates over how to define safety and e≈cacy for diverse patient populations around the globe now attract an unprecedented degree of attention. The political, financial, and human health stakes have never been higher for patients, manufacturers, government agencies, or the medical profession.
But now a days the regulations wrapped up in seemingly innocuous pharmaceutical drugs and supposedly standardized regimes for verifying their safety and efficacy. Can this Pharmacopolitics be a suitable tool in regulatory aspects in the clinical trials where the regulatory changes of USA, Europe and Japan will keep updating themselves.
Please share your opinion about the Pharmacopolitics and its implimentation in Clinical studies !
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Pharmacopolitics
Drug Regulation in the United States and Germany
By Arthur A. Daemmrich
Awards & Distinctions
2006 Edward Kremers Award, American Institute for the History of Pharmacy
Advocates of rapid access to medicines and critics fearful of inadequate testing both argue that globalization will supersede national medical practices and result in the easy transfer of pharmaceuticals around the world. In Pharmacopolitics, Arthur Daemmrich challenges their assumptions by comparing drug laws, clinical trials, and systems for monitoring adverse reactions in the United States and Germany, two countries with similarly advanced systems for medical research, testing, and patient care. Daemmrich proposes that divergent "therapeutic cultures"--the interrelationships among governments, patients, the medical profession, and the pharmaceutical industry--underlie national differences and explain variations in pharmaceutical markets and medical care.
Daemmrich carries the United States-Germany comparison from 1950 to the present through case studies of Terramycin (an antibiotic), thalidomide (a sedative), propranolol (a heart medication), interleukin-2 (a cancer therapy), and indinavir (an AIDS drug). He points to different political constructions of "the patient" in the United States and Germany to clarify important differences in government policies and in the distribution of power among key social actors. Daemmrich advises that international regulatory harmonization and globalization in medicine must retain flexibility for social and political variation between countries, even as they achieve technical standardization.
About the Author
Arthur Daemmrich is assistant professor of business administration at Harvard Business School.
This book may shed some light on the topic as far as understanding is in question. Mr. Arthur has compared Germany and USA pharmacomedical markets.
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Bhupesh