Archive for the ‘Regulation’ Category
Friday, February 3rd, 2012
UBM Canon's medical content team has announced a new project focused on the upcoming US election and its impact on the medtech industry. The project is called Medtech Issues in an Election Year and includes a dedicated page on the MD+DI website, e-newsletters and a webcast series. The MD+DI page, ...
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Monday, January 30th, 2012
Last week, US President Barack Obama presented a blueprint for reshoring—bringing manufacturing back to the United States—in his State of the Union Address. Obama proposed tax breaks and financial incentives for American companies that bring back jobs to the United States. It remains to be seen if these ideas get ...
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Friday, January 27th, 2012
Over the years, a growing number of medical device companies in the United States have decided to obtain the CE mark for new products before attempting to approve products through FDA. While FDA is not monolithic, many in the industry view the European system as generally more consistent, transparent, and ...
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Friday, January 27th, 2012
Nick Woods, Director of Hill Woods Medical Media Ltd, has written an editorial for MD+DI. In it, Woods explains that US manufacturers aren’t really arguing the right way to get the device tax repealed.
“The only problem is, chaps, that the legislature is either not listening or it doesn’t believe you. ...
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Thursday, January 26th, 2012
Russia is expected to release new medical device regulations within the next few weeks, writes Stewart Eisenhart, an editor covering regulatory affairs for Emergo Group, in a blog post on the Massdevice website. Eisenhart expects the regulations to be clearer and have more specific requirements than current regulations, for example ...
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Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
Japan’s Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA) has entered into a collaboration with Gifu University to promote education and research involving medical technology. Under the agreement, students at Gifu University’s United Graduate School of Drug Discovery and Medical Information Sciences can attend classes taught by PMDA staff and have an ...
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Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
An upcoming short course offered at Cranfield University (Bedford, UK) is designed to explain the clinical trial process to regulatory affairs professionals. The course, Clinical Evaluation of Medical Technology, will take place from 13–15 March 2012. The focus of the course is clinical trials in relation to product development and ...
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Thursday, December 8th, 2011
Eight pan-European industry associations have joined together to issue a position paper on industry involvement in health technology assessments (HTAs). The paper, which outlines the many benefits that industry can bring to the HTA process, was presented at the EUnetHTA Joint Action Conference in Gdansk on 8 December. Participants include ...
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Wednesday, November 30th, 2011
China passed its first patent law way back in . . . 1984! Clearly, protection of intellectual property does not have a long tradition in China, but like so many things in this amazing land, IP policy has evolved in dramatic fashion over a very short period of time. A ...
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
A new regulatory tool for medical device companies, the e-Zassi software, is now live on the Qmed website. Qmed, a UBM Canon site, is a qualified medical device supplier directory, search engine and industry resource. E-Zassi is an Innovation Management software platform for the medical device industry.
Part of the tool, ...
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Thursday, November 24th, 2011
Eucomed, the European medical technology industry, has published a position paper with proposals for shaping a renewed legislative framework for medical devices in Europe. According to a press release issued by Eucomed today, the industry recognises the need to modernise and strengthen the current medical devices legislation in Europe and ...
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Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
EMDT's conference Managing Regulatory Change for Medical Devices will take place next week, 30 November-1 December at the Westin Grand in Berlin. The conference will offer practical solutions for how to identify, navigate and implement regulatory requirements.
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