The U.S. FDA determined that the pandemic required an adjustment to applicant turn-around times for the agency’s responses to regulatory filings, an allowance that was unavoidable given the impact of the pandemic on applicants’ ability to respond. That policy has now been reversed, the agency said, which means that a failure to respond to queries about 510(k) filings within 180 days will lead to an assumption on the agency’s part that the applicant has withdrawn the submission.
U.K.’s Angle plc has become the first company to receive a U.S. FDA product clearance for harvesting intact cancer cells for analysis. Angle reported it scored FDA clearance for its Parsortix system for the capture and harvest of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from metastatic breast cancer patient blood. Shares in the AIM-listed company soared by more than 50% following the news.
Medtronic plc received FDA premarket approval for its Onyx Frontier drug-eluting stent, an update to the company’s Resolute Onyx stent. The Frontier is designed for treatment of patients with coronary artery disease (CAD), a leading cause of death in the U.S. Medtronic expects the stent to receive CE mark shortly.
The Embold fibered detachable coil developed by Boston Scientific Corp. to obstruct or reduce the rate of blood flow during therapeutic treatment in the peripheral vasculature, has won U.S. FDA 510(k) clearance.
The FDA has greenlighted Neuronetics Inc.’s Neurostar transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) system as an adjunct treatment for adults with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The noninvasive treatment, which uses repetitive, focused magnetic pulses to stimulate brain cells, is already cleared and marketed in the U.S., Japan and select other countries for major depressive disorder (MDD).
The FDA cleared a peripheral vascular occlusion product developed by Artio Medical Inc. The Solus Gold embolization device is indicated to obstruct or reduce the rate of blood flow in the peripheral vasculature.
