Archive for the ‘US Regulatory’ Category
Monday, September 12th, 2011
Last week, a blog post on Medtech Pulse discussed a recent article in New England Journal of Medicine about the need for medical device innovations in low- and middle- income markets. While we often think of medical innovations as cutting-edge technology, in these markets it can mean medtech products that ...
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Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
Guest post from Stewart Eisenhart, Emergo Group
Recent analysis of data available on the US FDA website shows that average 510(k) clearance times for medical device manufacturers have increased 37% between January 2006 and May 2010.
The study, conducted by medical device regulatory consultancy Emergo Group, found that the number of days ...
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Tuesday, February 15th, 2011
Is US FDA’s 510(k) process hazardous to your health? Yes, says a five-year study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, which reports that more than 70% of recalled devices were cleared for market under the protocol. Nonsense, replies US industry association AdvaMed, which points the finger at a deeply ...
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Tuesday, April 20th, 2010
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) Transparency website on 19 April as part of the agency's transparency initiative. The site will provide information about medical device and radiation-emitting product regulatory processes and decisions and summaries of data that provide the ...
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Thursday, April 8th, 2010
Cranfield University has announced a three-day course next month titled Management of Regulatory Affairs and its Contribution to the Medical Technology Lifecycle. It will provide students with an understanding of the skills required to control regulatory affairs departments and to achieve worldwide compliance and approvals, according to the university. This ...
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Friday, January 22nd, 2010
From the Wire: Dr Jeffrey Shuren has been appointed permanent Director of FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH). He previously served as Acting Center Director after the resignation of Dan Schulz in August 2009. FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg appointed Shuren to the job on a permanent basis on ...
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Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
The first-draft criteria for the federal funding of electronic health records as part of the United States’ recovery plans have been published, writes Jon Hoeksma in an article posted on the E-Health Europe website. The initial eligibility criteria made public at the end of December by the Centres for Medicare ...
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Thursday, December 31st, 2009
From the Wire: Cardiac pacemakers, stents and other medical devices implanted each year in hundreds of thousands of patients in the United States often are approved by government regulators based on insufficient scientific review, say researchers from the University of California at San Francisco. The US FDA often approves medical ...
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Sunday, June 7th, 2009
Proposed new US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) guidelines on advertising were issued on 26 May 2009. “Guidance for Industry Presenting Risk Information in Prescription Drug and Medical Device Promotion,” which can be downloaded from FDA’s website, suggests ways to present risk information to consumers and health-care professionals.
The guidelines follow ...
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Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
US President Barack Obama wants to give US FDA the largest funding boost in its history. His budget request calls for US$2.35 billion for fiscal year 2010, compared with US$2.06 billion in the previous fiscal year, reports the Wall Street Journal. Food safety oversight is the big winner, increasing from ...
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Friday, January 23rd, 2009
Scheduled for February 24–26, a course developed by Cranfield University in collaboration with TOPRA will examine how US regulatory procedures are applied to medical technologies. Offered by Cranfield University in the United Kingdom, the course is designed to enable attendees to leave with the capability to advise their organizations about ...
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Thursday, January 15th, 2009
The US Food and Drug Administration has issued a new safety guidance for manufacturers and operators of hand-held X-ray systems.
This is reportedly required because at the time the previous standard for diagnostic X-ray systems was written it did not take into account these devices. Specifically, it did not address system ...
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