The device industry has been clamoring for legislation that would require Medicare coverage for FDA-designated breakthrough devices, a wish that is one step closer to fulfillment as of June 27.

In a 5-4 decision June 27, the U.S. Supreme Court scuttled a Purdue Pharma LP’s bankruptcy plan that would have discharged any claims against the Sackler family, which owned and controlled the company that made billions of dollars from its sales of Oxycontin (oxycodone).

Agilemd Inc. received U.S. FDA clearance for its Ecart clinical deterioration suite, an artificial intelligence-powered software as a medical device that uses a machine learning algorithm to continuously evaluate the risk of a hospitalized patient’s death or transfer to intensive care based on 97 real-time variables.

The U.S. FDA reissued a 2022 draft guidance for clinical trial diversity at the behest of legislation from Congress, ballooning the previous nine-page draft to 23 pages.

After spending years battling with Apple Inc. over the consumer heart monitoring market Alivecor Inc. is hoping to bring its technology to the professional health care market with its new device, which recently received clearance from the U.S. FDA.

The U.S. FDA granted approval of Verona Pharma plc’s ensifentrine on its PDUFA date of June 26, giving the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) community its first new mechanistic option in a decade. The drug, branded Ohtuvayre, is also the first inhaled nonsteroidal therapy to treat a respiratory disease that combines both a bronchodilator and anti-inflammatory mechanism into one molecule. It is indicated for the maintenance treatment of COPD, which Verona said allows for broad use.

Concerto Bioscience Inc. has received FDA clearance of its IND application to initiate a first-in-human phase I trial of Ensemble No.2 (ENS-002), an investigational live biotherapeutic product to treat atopic dermatitis.

Monte Rosa Therapeutics Inc. has submitted an IND application to the FDA for MRT-6160, a highly selective and orally bioavailable molecular glue degrader directed against VAV1 in development for systemic and neurological autoimmune diseases.