Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society

Study: Patients favor accelerated approval for oncology drugs without alternatives

Patients with breast cancer said faster approval times for oncology products, as a trade-off for evidentiary certainty, is ...
Fox News

Cancer rates rising in young people due to ‘accelerated aging,’ new study finds: ‘Highly troubling’

Accelerated aging — when someone’s biological age is greater than their chronological age — could increase the risk of cancer tumors. That’s according to new research presented this week at the ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

Report Calls for Changes in Accelerated-Study Programs in Math and Science

High-school courses that let students pursue advanced study in mathematics and science should be more in-depth, and should also be made more widely available to poor and minority students, a report ...
RAPS

Study: Half of confirmatory studies for accelerated approvals are late

Study: Half of confirmatory studies for accelerated approvals are late More than half of confirmatory studies used to support accelerated approvals for drugs were not completed by their due date and ...
pharmaphorum

Study points to weaknesses in FDA accelerated approval path

Less than half of the cancer therapies that were granted accelerated approval by the FDA between 2013 and 2017 showed a clinical benefit in a confirmatory trial within the next five years. That is the ...
Health

Study Links Too Little Sleep—and Too Much—With Faster Aging

New research suggests that both too little and too much sleep may be linked to accelerated biological aging. However, ...
WTHR

Study finds consistent marijuana use can lead to accelerated brain aging

(WTHR) — A large study of brain scans has yielded surprising results for researchers: cannabis use is one of the leading factors of accelerated brain aging. The study, published by the Journal of ...