Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Abbvie, Aegle, Akari, Baylx, Ionis, Irlab, Kadmon, Pfizer, Provention, Solid, Teneobio, Zosano.
The latest global regulatory news, changes and updates affecting biopharma, including: FDA finalizes guidance for opioid use disorder drug R&D; FDA releases draft guidance for PK models, cancer drugs.
The COVID-19 pandemic has not run its course, but the U.S. FDA is already working on a plan for handling devices in the period after the public health emergency ends. Bill Maisel, chief medical officer at the FDA’s Center for Device and Radiological Health (CDRH), said the agency is thinking through what would have to appear in a guidance for a transition that may span a number of months, providing industry with some much-needed breathing room.
Sentiar Inc. received U.S. FDA clearance for its holographic guidance system, known as Commandep, for use in cardiac ablation procedures. The system allows electrophysiologists (EPs) to visualize 3D electroanatomic models in real-time, using augmented reality (AR), to seamlessly navigate invasive procedures. “The Commandep is intended for use as a medical imaging system that allows the review, analysis, communication and media interchange of multidimensional digital images,” Berk Tas, Sentiar’s CEO, told BioWorld.
Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Becton Dickinson, Genetron, Ka Imaging, Perkinelmer, Sentiar, Vexos.
Rather than the in-your-face, blame-and-shame show that was expected, the Sept. 30 drug pricing hearing before the U.S. House Oversight Committee was more a reminder of the policy differences between Democrats and Republicans on how best to make prescription drugs more affordable.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: CTI, Diurnal, I-Mab, Iterum, Janssen, Johnson & Johnson, Lantheus, Regenxbio.
Device makers may see privacy legislation in California and other U.S. states as a source of regulatory balkanization, but that very same problem is cropping up in the international arena. In addition to the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), privacy requirements are popping up in Brazil and elsewhere, and Eric Bowlin, a partner at Deloitte Risk & Financial Advisory, told attendees on a virtual symposium that the best approach might be to base a compliance program on general principles.
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