Doing his version of the Texas Two-Step, Texas Attorney General (AG) Ken Paxton is again shuffling Eli Lilly and Co. into a state courtroom – this time for allegedly overstepping the anti-kickback line.
Deephealth Inc., a subsidiary of Radnet Inc., completed the acquisition of breast health solutions company Icad Inc. in a $110 million all-stock transaction. The company also received U.S. FDA 510(k) clearance for Techlive – a remote scanning solution enabling centralized operation and supervision of MR, CT, PET/CT and ultrasound procedures.
The issues facing the EU’s Medical Device Regulation and the In Vitro Diagnostic Regulation are the stuff of legend, but the EU’s notified body group, TEAM NB, has proposed a mechanism to deal with some of the administrative problems.
The FDA’s warning letter to Whoop Inc. resurrects questions about the agency’s observance of the 21st Century Cures Act in that the warning letter stakes out the position that any reading of blood pressure is “inherently associated” with hypertension.
Syntara Ltd.’s stock plummeted 52% on news that the FDA recommended an additional phase IIb trial following a type C meeting about the company’s clinical development plan for lysyl oxidase inhibitor amsulostat (SNT-5505, formerly PXS-5505) in myelofibrosis.
Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) secured 5.3 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines made by Pfizer Inc./Biontech SE and Moderna Inc., officially including the mRNA-based vaccines in the country’s national immunization program on Aug. 5.
In less than two weeks, Setpoint Medical Inc. mastered the power serve with the first approval of a neuroimmune modulation device to manage rheumatoid arthritis, followed by a $25 million second tranche of its series C and a $115 million series D financing round.
Eleven pages is relatively short for a modern U.S. FDA draft guidance, but two trade associations nonetheless had questions about the FDA draft for transfers of 510(k) devices, such as how the agency defines the holder of the 510(k).
Kingsley Chin, the CEO of Spinefrontier Inc., has been sentenced to a year of supervised release for his role in the payment of less than $5,000 in consulting fees to a surgeon who provided no consulting services.
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