The Medical Futurist
JUNE 17, 2025
Just like in the case of other medical specialties , disruptive innovations will have a huge impact on how dentistry will be practiced and how patients will take care of themselves in the future. For patients, it promises more accurate care and better outcomes. How about having a teledentist consultation?
The Medical Futurist
JUNE 21, 2025
The California-based firm, Second Sight , the German company, Retina Implant AG, and the French venture, Pixium Vision were the forerunners of the field, developing implantable visual prosthetics to restore vision to patients who are blind as a result of the rare condition of retinitis pigmentosa. That must have been truly amazing!
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FDA Law Blog
NOVEMBER 1, 2023
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.
FDA Law Blog
MARCH 8, 2023
Manufacturers who submit reports via the FDA Electronic Submissions Gateway are being advised to update their systems by this time. Since the final rule took effect on August 14, 2015, medical device manufacturers and importers have been required to submit MDRs in an electronic format.
FDA Law Blog
APRIL 11, 2022
As background, Medtronic manufactures the MiniMed 600 series insulin infusion pumps. It would seem, though, that FDA is right that total shipments of affected product could potentially overstate the number in actual use by patients, thereby underestimating the risk. Some products may move with high velocity to patient use.
FDA Law Blog
FEBRUARY 4, 2022
The Proposed Rule will not apply to drug manufacturers: FDA stated that it “considers the activities of a manufacturer, as defined at section 581(10) of the FD&C Act, when distributing its own drug, as excluded from the definition of wholesale distribution and not subject to the requirements that apply to wholesale distributors.”
FDA Law Blog
JANUARY 26, 2022
This content is likely one of the reasons for FDA’s withdrawal of the Draft Guidance in 2015 – the same year that FDA suffered one of the most significant blows regarding First Amendment protections for pharmaceutical manufacturer speech. Where FDA does not have jurisdiction, the agency may nevertheless take appropriate action (e.g.,
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