After years of negotiations, the U.S. FDA and Swissmedic are one step away from recognizing each other’s good manufacturing practice (GMP) inspections of biopharma facilities.
The European Commission is spending €242 million (US$261 million) to create the first rescEU strategic reserve of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) medical countermeasures.
Given the advances being made in cancer treatments, it’s time to move beyond the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) to dose-optimization trials for targeted therapies, the U.S. FDA said in a new draft guidance.
Act Genomics (Hong Kong) Ltd. won U.S. FDA approval for its genomic profiling test for solid tumors, Actonco. This marks the first time an Asia-based company has received FDA clearance for a comprehensive genomic profiling test.
At a time when Chat GPT is making waves in the world of artificial intelligence (AI), new legislation is making the rounds in Washington that would allow an AI algorithm to write prescriptions for pharmaceuticals. Rep. David Schweikert (R-Ariz.) introduced H.R. 206 to the House Energy and Commerce (E&C) Committee Jan. 9, although at present the bill enjoys the backing of no other members of the House, suggesting that this legislation has a steep climb in front of it.
The U.S. FDA and Health Canada announced that they will roll out a pilot program that allows a medical device manufacturer to submit a medical device application to both agencies simultaneously for class II and class III medical devices.
The U.S. FDA’s 510(k) program is yet again under assault, this time from the authors of a Jan. 10 article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The authors’ primary point seems to be that any 510(k) devices that recite a predicate that is the subject of at least three recalls are themselves more likely than average to be the subject of a recall, although there was no discernible association between recall status and technological differences between the predicate and the follow-on devices.
The U.S. FDA’s surveillance of endoscopes related to reprocessing issues has yielded two more warning letters, one each for Tokyo-based Olympus Medical and its Aizu Olympus subsidiary, both of which were cited for inadequate procedures for medical device reports (MDRs).
U.S. FDA warning letters for medical devices are relatively rare these days, and the Oct. 6, 2022, warning to Empowered Diagnostics LLC of Pompano Beach, Fla., suggests that COVID tests are still front and center where FDA enforcement is concerned.
