Drug Regulations and Pharmaceutical Safety: Issues and Opportunities

Dear Colleagues,

Medicine regulations are integral to ensuring pharmaceuticals' quality, safety, and efficacy and improving health outcomes. Laws impact every facet of drug delivery, from discovery and clinical trials to manufacture and patient access. Laws can curb access to medicines, regulate harmful products, standardize practices, enhance benefits, and minimize risk. To be effective, regulations need constant review, monitoring, and evaluation. Research on the impact and policy development is critical to ensuring that laws remain fit for purpose in achieving the ideal goals of equitable access to quality, safe, and effective pharmaceuticals.

Authors are invited to submit articles that intersect on aspects of pharmaceuticals and regulations. The articles may include research concerning clinical trials, registration of medicines and market authorizations, use of off-label or unlicensed pharmaceuticals, advertising, classification, and restrictions on equitable access to medicines or any other area of medicines regulations. Informing good policy and regulations through research aids regulatory governance and improved health outcomes.

Dr. Sanya Ram
Guest Editor

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• clinical trials
• registration of medicines and market authorizations
• use of off-label or unlicensed pharmaceuticals
• advertising
• classification
• equitable access to medicines
• medicines regulations