Chicago-based public benefit corporation Neopenda LLC secured the CE mark for its wireless, wearable vital signs monitor and picked up $1.4 million in new funding led by Assiduity Capital and the Sorenson Impact Foundation. The organization developed Neoguard to monitor critically ill infants in resource-poor regions, but adapted it last year to meet the monitoring needs of adult patients with COVID-19. The CE mark approval covers adult, pediatric and neonatal patients.
The latest global regulatory news, changes and updates affecting medical devices and technologies, including: FDA says backlog of non-COVID applications will be cleared in eight weeks; NIH awards $33M for return-to-school efforts; Advamed tells CMS not to delay on MCIT.
Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Qorvo, Seigla.
FDA approvals for biopharma products have reached their highest point in six years for a first quarter, while regulatory data is up a full 45% over last year. A total of 265 regulatory items were tracked by BioWorld in March 2021, representing the highest monthly volume, not only for this year, but for last year as well.
DUBLIN – The Biden administration’s proposals on global corporation tax reform have set alarm bells ringing across the Irish government, as officials digest the possible implications of the plan for Ireland's foreign direct investment model of economic development.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Bausch, Biogen, Chipscreen, Eli Lilly, Oncopeptides.
If the FDA follows the advice of its Cellular, Tissue and Gene Therapies Advisory Committee, the U.S. could soon see its first approved islet transplant therapy, but few expect it to be broadly used. The adcom voted 14-9 April 15, with one abstention, that Celltrans Inc.’s donislecel, or cadaveric allogenic pancreatic islet cells, has an overall favorable risk-benefit profile for some patients with type 1 diabetes.
Just six weeks after receiving FDA 510(k) clearance for its optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging system (v2.1), Perimeter Medical Imaging AI Inc. received breakthrough device designation from the FDA for its next-gen product, the OCT imaging system with integrated artificial intelligence (AI).
TORONTO – For Scott Kadwell, president of Markham, Ontario-based RSK Medical Inc., the distributor tagged to sell the Health Canada approved Gammacore Sapphire, the device represents “a shift from a business to business to a direct-to-consumer business model.” For Rockaway, N.J.’s Electrocore Inc. which developed the self-administered technology, it’s one more regulator to have greenlighted the FDA cleared, CE-marked device for treating intractable migraine and cluster headache.