Obama Wants to Boost US FDA Budget

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 ...

New Computer Model Simulates Drug-Eluting Stent Behaviour In Vivo

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

[caption id="attachment_3999" align="alignleft" width="350" caption="Taken from MIT’s computer-modeling software, this image shows the arterial drug distribution patterns for three different scenarios of drug release in a single stent. Blood flow in this 3-D simulation is from left to right. Red represents the highest concentration of drug release and blue represents ...

Course at Cranfield University Dedicated to US Regulation of Medical Technology

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 ...