As expected, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) interim final rule to implement a seven-year most favored nation (MFN) Medicare payment model for 50 drugs crashed into the brick wall of a U.S. court.

The latest global regulatory news, changes and updates affecting medical devices and technologies, including: CMS unveils push toward digital collection of quality measures; NIH awards for ‘outside-the-box’ projects under RADx; ISO posts IP management standard.

Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Mologic.

Med-tech happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Amoy Diagnostics, Aytu Bioscience, Concord Healthcare Singapore, Corning, Eurofins Genomics, Merck KGaA, Olympus Partners, Soterix Medical, Titan Medical.

Keeping you up to date on recent developments in cardiology, including: Differences seen between the sexes in terms of stroke survival; Light used to control cardiac waves; 3D-printed blood vessels ID possible link between coronavirus, stroke.

Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Alligator, Altimmune, Arctic Vision, Astrazeneca, Audentes, Bristol Myers Squibb, Cara, Innocare, Innovent Biologics, Inotrem, Janssen Biotech, Merck, Orphazyme, Verrica.

Biopharma happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Amgen, Aurobindo, Beigene, Biontech, Bridgebio, Chiesi, Cullinan, Elevar, IMV, Inceptua, Lifesci, Oasmia, Pfizer, Proteostasis, Recce, Soligenix, Tonix, United Biomedical, United Therapeutics, Vincera, Ymabs, Yumanity, Zai Lab.

Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: Aim Immunotech, Algernon, Aprea, Gannex, Inovio, Lysogene, Novavax, Taiwan Liposome.

Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Agilent, Carmat, Interscope, Quidel.

Med-tech happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: 3B Blackbio Biotech, Arbor Biotechnologies, Astrazeneca, Biodesix, Celcuity, Deerfield Management, Eurofins, Excalibur Healthcare Services, Genophyll Enterprises, Identitysensors Biologics, Iridex, Ixlayer, Lgc Maine Standards, Lonza, Mogene, Nanotronics Health, Natural Wellness Clinics, Orasure, Palantir Technologies, Puma Biotechnology, Pwnhealth, Roche, Solutions in Critical Care, Sorrento Therapeutics, Todos Medical, Natural Wellness Clinics.