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9 Technologies That Will Shape The Future Of Dentistry

The Medical Futurist

Smart toothbrush While AI helps dental professionals provide better treatments, smart toothbrushes enable all of us to take better care of our teeth. These provide real-time feedback via a companion app warning you if you are applying too much pressure, where you are brushing and even coach the user as to how to brush properly.

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The Future Of Vision And Eye Care

The Medical Futurist

In 2015, surgeons in Manchester, UK have performed the first bionic eye implant for an AMD patient using Second Sight’s innovation. Researchers say that the implant cannot provide any highly detailed vision – but it can help patients detect distinct patterns such as door frames and shapes. How far can you see and hear?

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The 6-Year Saga Finally Ends: FDA Issues Final Rule Modifying The Intended Use Regulation

FDA Law Blog

Thus ends a saga that began with a proposal in 2015 to amend the “intended use” regulation. The proposal was to remove the “knowledge provision,” which had always seemed to problematically suggest that a manufacturer could be held responsible for off?label label use if the manufacturer knew about it. By Jeffrey K.

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FIFA Cases Hold Lessons for FDA-Regulated Companies – Organizations can be Victims of Their Own Employees’ Criminal Conduct

FDA Law Blog

In its Compliance Guidance for Pharmaceutical Manufacturers , the HHS OIG notes: The OIG recognizes that the implementation of a compliance program may not entirely eliminate improper conduct from the operations of a pharmaceutical manufacturer. Generally speaking, that recognition has limits, however.

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A Question 30 Years in the Making: Would a Final LDT Rule Withstand Judicial Scrutiny?

FDA Law Blog

Regulating LDTs: A Long and Winding Road In what might sound to some like protesting too much, the PR invokes FDA’s longstanding assertion that IVDs “manufactured” by laboratories are medical devices and that clinical laboratories that develop tests are acting as manufacturers.

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Knock, Knock. Who’s There? Breakthrough Device. Breakthrough Device Who? Breakthrough Device That Can’t Get to Market

FDA Law Blog

In particular, CDRH touts its Breakthrough Devices Program, which it advertises as a “program for certain medical devices and device-led combination products that provide for more effective treatment or diagnosis of life-threatening or irreversibly debilitating diseases or conditions. The Breakthrough program started in 2015.

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It Takes Three [Components] to Make a Thing Go Riiiiiight – OPDP Challenges Two-Part Ad

FDA Law Blog

By Dara Katcher Levy — We are working to keep up with OPDP’s posts over the past few weeks and a blog on its most recent letter to Lilly is forthcoming! With apologies to Rob Base and DJ EZ Rock , it took more than “two” to get this Emgality DTC TV commercial right (insert snare drum here please).

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