Good Clinical Practice

ICH E6(R3) Annex 2 Draft Version is Now Available!

ICH E6(R3) Annex 2 Draft Version is Now Available!

12/23/2024

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On November 6th, 2024, the International Council of Harmonization (ICH) published the draft version of ICH E6(R3) Annex 2, a long awaited update to the good clinical practice (GCP) section of the ICH Harmonized Guidelines.

FDA & NIH Work to Clarify Clinical Research Terminology

06/04/2024

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On May 6th, 2024 the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Institute of Health (NIH) released a Request for Information regarding their recently developed draft: Glossary of Terms and Definitions. Innovations in the design and conduct of clinical trials, such as incorporating real-world data to generate real-world evidence, has led novel terms being used to describe these innovations.

Updated EMA GCP FAQ Guidance: CRO Oversight

02/07/2023

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The European Medicines Agency (EMA) Good Clinical Practice Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) webpage offers guidance on GCP and is updated regularly as additional questions are received. Several of the questions were previously revised in March 2022.

Under section “GCP matters”, questions 16 and 17 were added in late 2022. Question 16 was covered in an earlier blog HERE.

ICH E6(R3) Draft Principles Published

5/25/2021

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The International Council for Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Pharmaceuticals for Human Use (ICH) released draft ICH E6(R3) Principles. ICH E6 Good Clinical Practice (GCP) guideline is the blueprint for clinical trials ensuring subject safety and data quality and it specifies the processes needed for study conduct and documentation to comply with the guideline and regulatory requirements. The last revision occurred in 2016. Since then, clinical trials are increasingly complex and in electronic formats, requiring updates to the GCP guideline to ensure its agility to meet the challenges of modern clinical trials.