Boston Scientific Corp. notched another win with the U.S. FDA approval of its spinal cord stimulator (SCS), Wavewriter, for treatment of non-surgical back pain just a week after receiving the agency’s nod for its Farapulse pulsed field ablation system. The new indication comes four months after expansion of approved uses for Wavewriter to include painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy.
Many health care facilities in the U.S. have deployed artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms that are tailored for the patient population seen in those clinical settings, a practice that avoids FDA regulation by removing the question of commercial distribution.
Toku Inc. recently obtained CE and UKCA marks for its artificial intelligence (AI) technology, Clair, which evaluates the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) using retinal images captured during an eye exam.
Shadowed by prescription drug shortages at their highest level since 2014, the FDA issued a slightly revised version Feb. 6 of a draft guidance it released a year ago to give it more visibility into the U.S. drug supply chain.
The U.S. Medicare program for coverage of U.S. FDA-designated breakthrough devices has gone through some significant alterations over the past few years, but there is legislation on Capitol Hill that would codify this program at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Mark Leahey, president and CEO of the Medical Device Manufacturers Association (MDMA), told BioWorld that one of the sources of drag on this kind of legislation is how the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) scores the legislation, a problem that might not be resolved until CBO works through other legislation.
In a first, the U.S. FDA accepted an artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning-model into its Innovative Science and Technology Approaches for New Drugs (ISTAND) pilot program for drug development. The program will support use of Deliberate AI Inc.’s anxiety and depression assessment tool, called the AI-generated Clinical Outcome Assessment, as a qualified drug development tool.
The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) has announced the online publication of the first playbook designed to help accelerate the development of adeno-associated virus (AAV) gene therapies for rare diseases.
Aprea Therapeutics Inc. has submitted an IND application to the FDA to initiate clinical trials of APR-1051, an oral next-generation small-molecule inhibitor of WEE1 kinase.
When the House Energy and Commerce’s Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held its last hearing on the U.S. FDA’s foreign drug inspection program in December 2019, there were “reasons for cautious optimism,” subcommittee Chair Morgan Griffith (R-Va.) said in opening a Feb. 6 hearing on the issue. But in the wake of the pandemic, the optimism is gone.
In a first, the U.S. FDA accepted an artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning-model into its Innovative Science and Technology Approaches for New Drugs (ISTAND) pilot program for drug development. The program will support use of Deliberate AI Inc.’s anxiety and depression assessment tool, called the AI-generated Clinical Outcome Assessment (AI-COA), as a qualified drug development tool.
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