Monday, August 21, 2017

FDARA: Making a Difference for Industry and Patients

FDARA: Making a Difference for Industry and Patients
On August 18, 2017, the President signed into law the Food and Drug Administration Reauthorization Act (FDARA), which includes a reauthorization of four of the medical product user fee programs, the Prescription Drug User Fee Amendments, Medical Device User Fee Amendments, Generic Drug User Fee Amendments, and Biosimilar User Fee Amendments. 
Three of FDA’s medical product center directors discuss importance of the FDA Reauthorization Act of 2017.

The Pains of Prescribing Opioids How often do we give painkillers out of selfishness?

The Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) is pleased to announce a CVM-only version of FDA’s eSubmitter tool. This new software package is independent from the FDA eSubmitter program. The new CVM eSubmitter tool is available for download as of August 21, 2017.
CVM eSubmitter is an electronic, question-based submission tool for creating information to be transmitted electronically to FDA through its secure Electronic Submission Gateway (ESG). eSubmitter uses data-capturing templates to allow users to assemble a complete and appropriately structured submission to CVM. The templates, available for all submission types varying from simple to complex, were developed by CVM subject-matter experts.

Sunday, August 20, 2017

20-plus health care stats that will blow you away

USA TODAY-Aug 18, 2017
$3.2 trillion: The United States spends a whopping sum on health care. The total U.S. healthcare expenditure in 2015 was $3.2 trillion, per the Centers for