The European Parliament (EP) has passed the Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act), bringing the legislation one step closer to full passage into law, with passage by the European Council the only remaining hurdle.
U.S. deputy attorney general Lisa Monaco recently outlined some new programs related to federal enforcement across the economy, including some novel elements related to artificial intelligence. However, the more important take-away, according to Preston Pugh of Crowell & Moring LLP, is that the Department of Justice (DOJ) continues to work to make the legal environment more friendly to would-be whistleblowers, thus increasing the risk for companies inside and outside the life sciences.
Regulatory harmonization and reliance are the orders of the day at this year’s meeting of the International Medical Device Regulators Forum (IMDRF), but that does not mean individual regulators are waiting for IMDRF to act on their own imperatives.
The U.S. FDA announced March 7 that Cardinal Health of Dublin, Ohio, has expanded a product correction for Monoject devices to a product removal because of manufacturing changes that could affect product performance.
This year’s annual meeting of the International Medical Device Regulators Forum (IMDRF) revolves around regulatory reliance, a notion that approaches but does not quite stray into the realm of the mutual recognition agreement.
U.S. deputy attorney general Lisa Monaco recently outlined some new programs related to federal enforcement across the economy, including some novel elements related to artificial intelligence (AI).
The U.S. FDA’s warning letter to Fresenius Kabi AG of Homburg, Germany highlighted several problems with the compliance practices at the company’s plant in North Andover, Mass., but there is more than just a compliance issue at play. Fresenius had acquired the Ivenix infusion pump and the inspected research and development site in its 2022 acquisition of Ivenix Inc., another example of the regulatory and compliance hazards of acquisitions in the med-tech space.
The World Trade Organization wrapped up its 13th ministerial conference and, as the saying goes, no news is good news. Life science trade associations in the U.S. lauded the end of the conference without an extension of intellectual property rights waivers for therapies and diagnostics for the COVID-19 pandemic, although this outcome was not entirely surprising.
The U.S. FDA announced several new and updated recalls recently, including a new recall of incubators made by Wipro GE Health Pvt. Ltd., of Bangalore, India, which may be subject to an increased risk that the infant may fall out of the system.
Three U.S. federal government agencies announced that their focus on consolidation in health care markets may soon ramp up, given concerns that consolidation may be affecting the cost and quality of patient care.
