Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Ascentage, Atrogi, Calliditas, Cansino, Marinus, Merck, Orphazyme, Palisade, Takeda.
Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Catalyst Orthoscience.
Much of the question of FDA regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) is seen as revolving around changes to the statute, but that does not mean the FDA and other agencies are in wait-and-see mode. Representatives of both the FDA and Health Canada said on a March 22 webinar that guidances related to these algorithms will be posted later this year, thus opening the door to a more predictable premarket path for these products.
Murrysville, Pa.-based Philips Respironics Inc. has had its share of troubles with its devices for respiratory use, including several CPAP machines. The FDA reported March 21 that the company’s V60 and V60 Plus respirators are now the subjects of a class I recall due to the use of an expired adhesive that could ultimately lead to a shut-down of the devices, including instances in which the shut-down would not be accompanied by an alarm.
Citing a court order for its haste, the U.S. FDA skipped the draft and went straight to issuing a final guidance that will change how certain ophthalmic drugs are regulated.
The U.S. biosimilar review process seems to be hitting its stride, with the FDA approving, in the first cycle, 67%, or 14, of the 21 biosimilar applications filed and acted upon in the first four years of BsUFA II.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Aura, Biomarin, BMS, Kye, Neurosense, Oryzon, Provention, Travere.
Australia’s Therapeutics Goods Administration (TGA) cleared Orthocell Ltd.’s regenerative nerve repair device, Remplir, a biological scaffold that mimics the outer layer of the peripheral nerve to facilitate nerve repair.
Boston Scientific Corp. sent warning notices of the potential for embolisms arising from use of its Spaceoar and Spaceoar Vue systems because of “inadvertent placement of Spaceoar gel into a blood vessel and subsequent migration of the hydrogel outside of the pelvis.”
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