GAITHERSBURG, Maryland — Timothy Ulatowski is the director of the Office of Compliance (OC) at FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH). We sat down with Ulatowski for an interview for Medical Device Daily's sister publication, Biomedical Business & Technology, last month, and the following is excerpted from that interview. (Medical Device Daily)

WASHINGTON – The second day of this year's National Health Policy Conference, hosted by Academy Health (Washington) and the healthcare policy journal Health Affairs, included the usual discussions about how to reform healthcare, but the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee made it clear that a single-payer system is simply not in the cards. (Medical Device Daily)

Former senator Tom Daschle announced yesterday that he is withdrawing his name from consideration for the post of the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Daschle's announcement comes at an especially sensitive time, given the urgency on the part of the Democratic Party to reshape healthcare in short order. (Medical Device Daily)