FDA has announced a new guidance for labeling of reprocessed medical devices and validation of the reprocessing procedure, a guidance that supplants its predecessor from 1996. One obvious difference in the new requirement is that labels will have to comply with requirements addressing human factors engineering, which has been the subject of much emphasis of late. (Medical Device Daily)

Politics, economics, and NIH spending priorities By MARK McCARTY Medical Device Daily Washington Editor Government that makes sense. It's what we all dream of, but when it comes to spending priorities at the U.S. National Institutes of Health, we might as well wish to lose weight on the see-food diet. FYI: That's the diet on which when you see food, you eat it. What do I mean? Here's what I mean. NIH's budget for the National Cancer Institute in fiscal 2010 was a bit more than $5.1 billion (click here), but the budget for the National Heart, Lung, and Blood...