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Medical device manufacturers should prepare now for the potential disruption in fluctuating power, contaminants or unusual levels of heat or humidity that often occur during hurricane season, the FDA advises. Read More
CDER’s Office of Surveillance and Epidemiology (OSE) 2022 Annual Report showed the total number of adverse event (AE) reports rose slightly from 2.23 million in 2021 to 2.34 million, capturing patient adverse reactions along with medication error reports and product quality complaints. Read More
The FDA and the Medical Device Innovation Consortium (MDIC) are collaborating to offer funding of up to $300,000 to medical devicemakers that use advanced technologies to enhance product quality or improve the manufacturing process. Read More
The FDA’s long-awaited draft guidance on decentralized trials (DCT) is finally out and industry experts say that while the guidance has done many things right, recommendations on how sponsors monitor remote locations, such as in patients’ homes, may draw industry pushback. Read More
None of the impacted lots were distributed through COVID.gov/tests - Free at-home COVID-19 tests or as part of other federal testing programs. Read More
The FDA is hoping lawmakers will pass proposed legislation giving the agency regulatory authority for in vitro clinical tests (IVCT) — a new product category that includes both laboratory-developed tests (LDT) and in vitro diagnostic (IVD) tests. Read More
The FDA issued four guidance documents on Thursday covering a variety of topics, including efficacy endpoints for antidiabetic drugs, adjusting for covariates in randomized clinical trials, electronic submission of study data and tissue containment systems used during power morcellation procedures.Read More
Integra LifeSciences has initiated a voluntary recall of all its products manufactured at its Boston facility for the past five years after discovering, through an internal investigation, that the products contained higher than acceptable levels of endotoxins. Read More
Republican lawmakers are renewing their push to speed FDA approvals by allowing the agency to automatically approve drugs and devices that have been approved and sold in other developed and trustworthy countries. Read More
The Ironworkers District Council of New England Health and Welfare Fund has filed a class action complaint against Teva Pharmaceuticals accusing the company of a nearly decade-long anticompetitive scheme to delay generic competition for its QVAR (beclomethasone dipropionate HFA) asthma inhalers. Read More