LONDON – New guidelines for stem cell research open the door to extending the legal limit on human embryo research beyond the current 14-day maximum set down 40 years ago.
Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Acutus Medical, Advanced Human Imaging, Avicenna.AI, Lantheus, Micro Interventional Devices, Nowdiagnostics.
The FDA’s Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee (EMDAC) voted 10-7 May 27 that the benefits of Provention Bio Inc.’s teplizumab outweighed its risks, but the vote was not a ringing endorsement of the anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody biologic that could be the first disease-modifying treatment for people at risk of developing type 1 diabetes (T1D).
There are now two FDA-backed monoclonal antibody COVID-19 treatments after the agency granted Glaxosmithkline plc (GSK) emergency use authorization (EUA) for single-dose sotrovimab to treat mild to moderate COVID-19 in adults and children as young as 12. Vir Biotechnology Inc. collaborated on the program.
In an effort to address the longstanding issues with medical device manufacturers failing to comply with Section 522 postmarket surveillance studies, the FDA is looking to revamp 2016 policies in new draft guidance issued on Wednesday. A separate FDA draft document seeks to update guidance on post-approval study requirements for high-risk devices with new policies on procedures and submissions.
The official compliance date for the European Union’s Medical Device Regulation (MDR) is now officially in force after a delay of two years. One of a number of unfortunate side effects is that the mutual recognition agreement (MRA) between the EU and the Swiss government has lapsed, and the European Commission has indicated that the two sides have not come to terms over the impasse.
Woebot Labs Inc. got a bit of a pick-me-up with the FDA's decision to grant breakthrough device designation to the company's digital therapeutic for postpartum depression. The WB001 app combines cognitive behavioral therapy with interpersonal psychotherapy and an understanding of how postpartum depression affects interactions and daily life. The investigational treatment is designed as an eight-week, prescription-only intervention for women under a physician’s care.
LONDON – Ibex Medical Analytics Ltd. has secured a second CE marking for its Galen artificial intelligence decision support system for automated interpretation of tumor biopsies, adding breast cancer to the approval in prostate cancer secured just over a year ago. The CE mark follows results from a blinded, multicenter clinical study at Institut Curie in France and Maccabi Healthcare Services in Israel. Ibex says that in the trial Galen breast demonstrated very high accuracy in detecting various types of breast cancer.
Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Bimini Health Tech, Ibex, Koya Medical, One Drop, Pentax Medical, Turner Imaging Systems, Varian, Visionairy Health, Xandar Kardian.
Originally intended as a way to help provide health care to uninsured and underinsured Americans, the 340B program has mutated into a revenue stream that’s benefiting large U.S. hospital systems, contract pharmacies and even pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) while contributing to higher drug prices for patients, according to stakeholders speaking at a May 26 Air 340B summit on the federal program.
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