EPA proposes electronic reporting rule

EPA Proposes Tighter Particulate Air Pollution Standards

Smoking Policies Tighten in Halls of Academe As the fall 2012 semester gets under way, at least 744 U.S. colleges and universities have made their campuses completely smoke free, indoors and out, and nearly threequarters of those have banned all forms of tobacco on campus. Ty Patterson, executive director of the National Center for Tobacco Policy, told the Christian Science Monitor that many co...

CMS proposes changes in H&P rule.

Canada proposes amendments to adverse drug reaction reporting.

On June 13, 2009, proposed regulations amending the Food and Drug Regulations1 with respect to adverse drug reaction reporting (“Proposed Regulations”) were published in the Canada Gazette. The Proposed Regulations permit more rigorous monitoring of drug safety by the Minister of Health and bolster the Minister’s ability to enforce Canada’s reporting requirements for adverse drug reactions.2 Un...

Improving Patients\' Care through Electronic Medical Error Reporting System

Medical errors are unintentional acts that take place due to the negligence or lead to undesirable consequences in medical practice. The purpose of this study was to design a conceptual model for medical error reporting system. This applied descriptive cross-sectional research employed Delphi method carried out from 2012 to 2013. The study population was medical and paramedical personnel of ...

Trial Reporting in ClinicalTrials.gov - The Final Rule.

Title VIII of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Amendments Act of 2007 (FDAAA) expanded the legal mandate for sponsors and others responsible for certain clinical trials of FDAregulated drug, biologic, and device products to register their studies and report summary results information to ClinicalTrials.gov,1 which is managed by the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes o...