PREFACE: The role of regulatory authorities in the health system is to ensure the quality, safety and efficacy of medical products. It is acknowledged that regulatory authorities are at [...]
Background: For almost a decade, the East African Community has implemented the Medicines Regulatory Harmonization (EAC-MRH) programme among its member states to harmonise technical requirements and standards for medical [...]
Background: The Gulf Centralised Committee for Drug Registration (GCC-DR), as part of the Gulf Health Council (GHC), enables the consolidated registration of pharmaceutical products throughout the member states of [...]
This Briefing presents the results from the CIRS annual analysis of new active substance (NAS) approvals by six major regulatory agencies: the European Medicines Agency (EMA), the US Food [...]
Introduction: The common technical document (CTD) format harmonised the requirements for the registration of medicines, which had traditionally differed from country to country, making it possible for countries to [...]
Introduction: ZaZiBoNa, the work-sharing initiative in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) that has been in operation for 8 years has successfully assessed over 300 dossiers/applications, with an overall [...]
China has made significant changes to its medicine regulatory system including: Regulatory reforms - since 2015, regulatory reforms have helped to eliminate application backlogs, improve review timelines and increase [...]
Digitisation and digital health technologies are transforming clinical development; companies, regulators and Health Technology Assessment (HTA) agencies are looking to derive actionable insights from the data being generated. This [...]
Over the last five years, regulatory and HTA interactions, as well multi-HTA and multi-regulatory interactions and collaborations, have evolved in thinking and mutual activities both at a product level [...]
As the regulatory landscape changes to meet new challenges, such as increasingly sophisticated medical innovations, fundamental questions are being raised: What is the role of a ‘modern’ regulator today? [...]