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Did you know that UCT recently launched an Institutional Data Repository? It is called ZivaHub: Open Data UCT. The purpose of the repository is to house research data sets that are required 

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On 5 April, two new regulations on medical devices were adopted by the EU namely EU2017/745 and EU2017/746. These replace the existing Directives for Medical Devices and In-Vitro Medical Devices, respe

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) have issued a guideline on GCP compliance in relation to the trial master file (TMF), and invites comments from stakeholders. The guideline was compiled by the Good Clinical Practice Inspectors Working Group and the

The International Conference on Harmonization (ICH) has amended its good clinical practice (GCP) guideline (published in November 2016).

Justin Malherbe, at law firm Norton Rose Fulbright South Africa writes that the long-awaited ‘Regulations relating to Medical Devices and in vitro diagnostic medical devices (IVDs)’ were published by the Mi

A number of South African researchers use the REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture) web application to manage their research data. So much so that the University of Witwatersrand (Wits) invited the REDCap creat