International regulators emphasize the need for reliable evidence on COVID-19 treatment

2024-02-26T11:53:42+00:00April 9th, 2020|Categories: Clinical Trial, Covid-19, Europe|Tags: , , , |

Today, the international regulators have published a report highlighting their reflections on the development of potential COVID-19 therapies, clinical trials, and compassionate use programs. The report presents the results of a virtual meeting from April 2nd, 2020 on COVID-19 [...]

EMA Guidance on the Management of Clinical Trials during the COVID-19 pandemic

2024-02-02T11:24:14+00:00April 3rd, 2020|Categories: Clinical Trial, Covid-19, Europe|Tags: , , , |

EU has updated their COVID-19 clinical trial guidance that was initially released on March 20, 2020. Version 2, published on March 27, includes the following key changes from version 1: Initiating new clinical trials The feasibility of starting a [...]

COVID-19 WEBINAR, April 2, 2020 14.00/18.00 GMT Imperial College, London

2024-02-01T16:57:35+00:00April 1st, 2020|Categories: Clinical Trial, Covid-19, Europe|Tags: |

Researchers at Imperial College in London published findings in a study demonstrating up to 120,000 deaths may have already been averted in 11 countries, including the UK, Italy and Spain. Moreover, they add that the estimated proportion of people [...]

Germany: BfArM Recommendations for clinical trials with medical devices during the COVID-19 pandemic

2024-02-26T11:12:52+00:00March 27th, 2020|Categories: Clinical Trial, Covid-19, Europe, Regulatory, Western Europe|Tags: , , , |

On March 26, 2020, the BfArM published "Additional recommendations on the European Guidance on the Management of Clinical Trials during the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic " for clinical trials with medicinal products. All recommendations are aimed at: continue to ensure [...]

EMA Guidelines for COVID-19 Impact on Clinical Trial Methodology

2024-02-02T11:39:10+00:00March 26th, 2020|Categories: Clinical Trial, Covid-19, Europe|Tags: , , , |

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) published a new draft guideline for clinical trials inviting sponsors to evaluate the implications of COVID-19 on methodological aspects of ongoing trials. This guidance covers actions that sponsors of ongoing clinical trials affected by [...]

HUNGARY: Update on measures for clinical studies under COVID-19

2024-02-26T11:39:00+00:00March 25th, 2020|Categories: Eastern Europe, Europe|Tags: , , , , |

UPDATE ON MARCH 25th, 2020 OGYEI National Institute of Pharmacy and Nutrition updated special measures to face COVID-19 emergency. Updated instructions concern among others: Authorization procedure for new study applications or amendments:  sponsors should submit as "urgent safety measure" [...]

MDR application may be halted for 1 year. European Commission announces proposal to help the fight against COVID-19.

2024-02-26T16:58:31+00:00March 25th, 2020|Categories: Europe, Innovation, MDR|Tags: , |

Today’s live read-out by the European Commission spokesperson Stefan De Keersmaecker announced a proposal to delay the application of the new MDR.  “The European Commission is working on a proposal to postpone the entry into force of the new [...]

BELGIUM: FAMHP recommends electronic submission during COVID-19 emergency

2024-02-01T16:16:31+00:00March 25th, 2020|Categories: Europe, Western Europe|Tags: , , , , |

UPDATE ON March 25th, 2020 Federal Agency for Medicine and Health Products (FAMHP) recommends some specific measures for the COVID-19 emergency. Meditrial manages several studies in Belgium and has direct connections with Investigators, hospitals and local Ethics Committees. Please feel [...]

DENMARK: Extraordinary Measures for Clinical Trials due to COVID-19

2024-02-02T10:35:12+00:00March 24th, 2020|Categories: Europe, Western Europe|Tags: , , , , , |

UPDATE ON March 24th, 2020 Danish Medicines Agency (Lægemiddelstyrelsen) issued guidance regarding extraordinary measures  and further amendment dated March 24th for clinical trials during a pandemic emergency. The Agency is aware of Covid-19 influence on the conduct of clinical [...]

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