The latest global regulatory news, changes and updates affecting medical devices and technologies, including: CDC reports on cases, sequencing; NICE says savings seen with Cytosorb; IP at issue as WTO pushes for global pandemic effort; Researcher gets prison time for trade secret theft; USPTO responds to COVID-19 challenge.
Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Inovytec, Johnson & Johnson Vision.
The latest global regulatory news, changes and updates affecting biopharma, including: Researcher gets prison time for trade secret theft; USPTO responds to COVID-19 challenge.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Bayer, BMS, Cerecor, Chinook, Durect, Kintor, Mustang, Neurmedix, Paxmedica, Russian Direct Investment Fund, Sesen, SQZ, VBI Vaccines.
While the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research met all action dates for the 53 new molecular entities approved in 2020, despite the COVID-19 pandemic, developers of at least 8 drugs continue to wait for a decision beyond their expected timelines.
The U.S. FDA’s safer technologies program, or STeP, may seem uncontroversial, but agency staff said on a Feb. 1 conference call that the program could be delayed by the change in administration at the White House. This is possibly an artifact of the Biden administration’s Jan. 20 executive order (EO) that applies a freeze to federal agency activities for 60 days, an EO that could affect a wide swath of federal agency activity.
LONDON – The U.K. National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published new advice on how and when artificial intelligence (AI) could be applied to the interpretation of mammograms and chest computer tomography images, in a move that is intended to set the ground rules for the uptake of these technologies. In population breast screening, NICE looked at how five AI systems could be used to pick out mammography images that need further assessment, supporting qualified radiologists in their interpretation.
The latest global regulatory news, changes and updates affecting medical devices and technologies, including: MITA unveils policy concerns for 2021; NRC seeks nominees for medical isotopes adcomm; Senators: More protection needed for genomic data; Veterans’ genomic data put at risk; DNA sequencing claims struck down.
Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Galderma, Soliton.
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