The financial collapse of direct-to-consumer genetic testing pioneer 23andme Holding Co. is already one of the more notable developments of 2025, but the company’s customers have less to worry about with regard to their data.
The U.S. FDA famously lost a lawsuit over its final rule for regulation of lab-developed tests (LDTs), but Jeff Shapiro of King & Spalding told BioWorld that the implications of this decision go beyond FDA regulation of clinical lab operations.
Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: Advanced Medical Balloons, Cleerly, Medican Technologies, Neo Medical
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Med-tech happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Cellares Eargo Hearx Dukehill Healthcare, Nanovibronix.
Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Azmed, Restor3d, Teleflex, Zimmer Biomet.
As the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services begins implementing its reorganization and reduction-in-force plan by sending out termination notices this week to 10,000 more employees across its agencies, top Democrats in Congress are demanding details about the plan.
Medtronic plc’s Evolut Low-Risk trial continued to show non-inferiority of transcatheter aortic valve replacement to surgical aortic valve replacement in terms of death or disabling stroke at five years in a late-breaking presentation at the American College of Cardiology’s Annual Scientific Session in Chicago on March 30.
When every minute matters, quickly determining which patients in the emergency department need urgent care for myocardial infarction can save lives. Researchers at the University Hospital Münster in Münster, Germany, developed a deep learning model that can detect features on electrocardiograms that more accurately identifies which patients require urgent revascularization than clinicians and provides results faster than high-sensitivity troponin lab tests.
Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration floated a draft rule on risk classification for in vitro diagnostics, which does not apply to home use tests, the subject of impending rulemaking.