EMA ADVISES ON CREATING SUB-GROUPS FOR CLINICAL TRIALS

THE EUROPEAN Medicines Agency (EMA) has issued guidance for pharmacos wanting to devise clinical trials based on separate groups of the population. Its advice looks at how assessments can look at one gender; healthy or unhealthy patients; subjects of certain ages; or living in particular regions. The guidelines say how to document and plan for such trials. *http://www.ema.europa.eu/docs/en_GB/document_library/Scientific_guideline/2014/02/WC500160523.pdf



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