The latest global regulatory news, changes and updates affecting medical devices and technologies, including: HHS commits more funds for testing, materials to fight pandemic; Medtronic announces recall of Valiant Navion; Florida man pleads guilty in DME fraud.
Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Delta International Services & Logistics, Everlywell, Horiba Medical, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Vax-Immune Diagnostics.
Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: Anaconda Biomed, Catalyst Orthoscience, Genmark Diagnostics, Vocalis Health.
In a Feb. 17 update to its guidance on managing clinical trials during the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.K.’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said all sponsors of ongoing clinical trials for indications other than treatment or prevention of COVID-19 are required to evaluate the impact a COVID-19 vaccine may have on the trial.
Aside from its place in the history books as a global pandemic that nearly locked down the world, COVID-19 could have a lasting, more positive legacy of finally opening U.S. biopharmaceutical clinical trials to greater diversity.
LONDON – The EU is taking concerted action to detect new variants of SARS-CoV-2, investing €225 million (US$270 million) to increase viral genome sequencing to 5% of positive cases across Europe, and to carry out research on their evolution and transmissibility.
DUBLIN – The most solid conclusion that can be drawn from Immunic Inc.’s phase II trial of IMU-838 in hospitalized COVID-19 patients is that a reduction in the need for invasive ventilation is no longer a useful endpoint for studies of COVID-19 drugs.
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