FDA makes REMS website more user friendly

Message to the FDA on ESAs: REMS is not enough, more studies are needed.

S ince March 24, 2010, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been requiring a “Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy” (REMS) for all patients who are treated with erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs) (1). Although regulatory authorities elsewhere in the world have not as yet taken this approach, experience suggests that these agencies often take their cues from the FDA. Most nephrolo...

Towards A More User-Friendly Correction

We first present our view of detection and correction of syntactic errors. We then introdnce a new correction method, based on heuristic criteria used to decide which correction should be preferred. Weighting of these criteria leads to a flexible and parametrable system, which can adapt itself to the user. A partitioning of the trees based on linguistic criteria: agreement rules, rather than co...

Pharmacists, Deluged With Requirements, Pressure FDA to Standardize REMS Programs.

Pharmacists want the FDA to standardize REMS programs.

The FRR Project: Developing a More User Friendly Rest Room

This paper describes the RTD project FRR (Friendly Rest Room) which is partly funded by the EU in the Quality of Life programme. The objective of the FRR project is (a) to create prototypes of more user friendly rest rooms for old persons and for persons with disabilities and (b) to gain applicable knowledge about specific needs and wishes of old and/or disabled persons and their care persons c...

Polymeric Gas Separation Membranes: What Makes them Industrially more Attractive?