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Is my Software a Medical Device? Use the Digital Health Policy Navigator

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If you are a manufacturer of implants that go into the human body for the treatment of disease, it’s an easy yes that you are a manufacturer of a medical device. or other similar or related article” which is “intended for use in the diagnosis of disease or other conditions.” Clinical Decision Support Software.

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Ninth Circuit Upholds FDA’s Authority to Regulate Stem Cell Clinic Treatments

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The District Court in this case, which came to the opposite conclusion and is now reversed, was a notable outlier in a string of cases in other circuits upholding FDA’s authority to regulate stem cell clinics on similar grounds as the Ninth Circuit did here. Stem Cell Clinic, LLC , 998 F.3d Regenerative Sciences, LLC , 741 F.3d

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Out At Home: FDA’s Vocal Support of Home Testing but Reluctance to Clear Novel OTC Home Tests

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He also identified “Next-Generation Home-based Testing Technologies, including new IVDs, Digital Lateral Flow Readers, and Reporting Technologies” as an opportunity to “extend care from the hospital and clinic into the home setting.” HbA1c, diagnosis of a particular virus, etc.). HbA1c, diagnosis of a particular virus, etc.).

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COVID At-Home Antigen Tests: If at First You Don’t Succeed Try, Try and Try Again

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The 80% sensitivity requirement for antigen tests has yet to be explained either scientifically or clinically by the Agency. While this was a step in the right direction, only the tests whose clinical studies occurred during the Omicron surge had this stipulation included in their labeling.

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

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What no one should find funny is how CDRH seems to be approaching Breakthrough devices of late, setting clinical study expectations so high that these innovative, novel, life-saving products may never get to the other side of the door, regardless of how much they knock. CDRH takes great pride in stating that it is committed to innovation.

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Proposed LDT Rule Raises Many Questions but Provides Few Answers

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There is much to unpack, and we intend to do so in a series of blog posts. The crux of the proposed rule lies in the addition of ten words: “ including when the manufacturer of these products is a laboratory.” . In this post, we focus on the proposed changes themselves, and the many questions the agency leaves unanswered.

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Where Are All the OTC Rapid Antigen Tests for COVID? FDA’s Role in Blocking These Tests from the American Market

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Rapid tests for COVID-19 are fast, inexpensive to manufacture, and a relatively easy method to detect the presence of an active SARS?CoV?2 PCR) test is considered the gold standard for actual diagnosis. PCR comparators for their clinical studies but refuses to publicly designate which ones are acceptable. Why is that?