The Medical Futurist

MAY 18, 2025

Assisting surgeries, disinfecting rooms, dispensing medication, keeping company: believe it or not these are the tasks medical robots will soon undertake in hospitals, pharmacies, or your nearest doctor’s office. Instead of a human, however, they used a mannequin designed for medical training.

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FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

When FDA published the fiscal years (FY) 2023-2027 goals letter at the end of August, making known their commitments and planned initiatives for the coming years, we were both excited by many of the announcements, while recognizing the real success will come from how the Agency implements them.

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FDA Law Blog

JULY 24, 2023

With that decision, Jazz lost its ODE, allowing Avadel’s sodium oxybate product to compete with Jazz’s long before the expiration of the ODE covering Jazz’s most recent product, Xywav, in 2027. Though the Orphan Drug Act (now) includes a clinical superiority clause, Jazz argues that it is not a third exception to ODE.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 14, 2023

By Philip Won & Véronique Li, Senior Medical Device Regulation Expert — “Total Product Life Cycle Advisory Program or TAP pilot — the most exciting thing in MDUFA V. According to Dr. Shuren, the TAP Advisor acts as a consultant, engaging with companies to identify key questions, challenges, and areas requiring strategic problem-solving.

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