EMA

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An EU agency that checks and approves medicines for use

proper noun

: EMA

Before a new drug is approved, it must be reviewed by the EMA to ensure its safety and efficacy.

The path it's on is a much more conventional path of drug approval by the FDA or the EMA, European Medicines Agency.

Examples

Barb Luck is the marketing manager for EMA, Inc., St. Paul, Minn.

Academic text (2003)
I have no doubt that the Declaration of Interdependence at EMA will mean better results for our clients.

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Creative development efforts at EMA are more open than they've ever been before.

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Harris told the EMA director that county officials would terminate him if similar incidents occurred again.

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Under Article 58, the EMA provides scientific assessments, in coordination with WHO, of medicinal products for human use in markets outside the EU.

Academic text (2016)
Nichols told Tennessee Watchdog that the EMA director has worked in that position for more than a dozen years.

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New initiatives such as the UN Prequalification Programme managed by the WHO (section 3) and the EMA's Article 58391 adapt regulatory activities to global health purposes.

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The EMA is responsible for the scientific evaluation of new medicines in Europe.
The EMA collaborates with national authorities to monitor the safety of medicines after they are on the market.

Surface Forms

EMA main

Morphology

EMA = E + M + A

As an acronym, 'EMA' is formed from initial letters, and its meaning cannot be inferred from the letters alone unless the learner already knows the expanded institutional name.

Etymology

EMA is made from the first letters of European Medicines Agency, the EU agency that checks and approves medicines for use across Europe. So, EMA is a short name or 'name tag' for the group that decides if a medicine is safe and can be used in EU countries.