Non-clinical testing for the SARS-CoV-2 virus has been a major goal for regulators across the globe for months. Emergency use authorization (EUA) was just granted by the FDA is for the Quidel Quickvue COVID-19 test, an at-home antigen test with a turnaround time of 10 minutes. It’s the latest in a series of approvals of home tests and collection kits that promises to help control the pandemic.
The latest global regulatory news, changes and updates affecting medical devices and technologies, including: CRS: Supply chain for testing still under pressure; AHRQ eyes provider-to-provider telehealth; Health Canada emphasizes nursing homes in report on testing; Advamed, Georgia Bio sound off on EtO.
Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Clinical Enterprise, Fluidigm, Invo Bioscience, Memic Innovative Surgery, Mobidiag, Opgen, Perimeter Medical Imaging AI, Vascular Grafts Solutions, Vetex Medical.
With the FDA’s granting of emergency use authorization (EUA) to Johnson & Johnson (J&J), there is now a third vaccine – and the first requiring only a single shot – against COVID-19 for adult Americans. Though it packs less of an efficacy punch, the EUA allows J&J’s Ad26.COV2.S to join mRNA vaccines from Moderna Inc. and Pfizer Inc./Biontech SE as protection against the virus.
Biopharma happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Anokion, Boehringer Ingelheim, Chinook, Claritas, Clene, Enlivex, Evotec, Gubra, Homology, Hoth, Kalytera, Novartis, Uppthera.
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