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FDA Publishes Discussion Paper Seeking Feedback on 3D Printing of Medical Devices at the Point of Care

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In October 2014, FDA held a public workshop titled “Additive Manufacturing of Medical Devices: An Interactive Discussion on the Technical Considerations of 3D Printing.” The first scenario is a healthcare facility using a medical device 3D-printing production system. use in education, construction, art, and jewelry).

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FDA Publishes Discussion Paper Seeking Feedback on 3D Printing of Medical Devices at the Point of Care

FDA Law

In October 2014, FDA held a public workshop titled “Additive Manufacturing of Medical Devices: An Interactive Discussion on the Technical Considerations of 3D Printing.” The first scenario is a healthcare facility using a medical device 3D-printing production system. use in education, construction, art, and jewelry).

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Are Predetermined Change Control Plans on the road to Global Harmonization?

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See our prior blog post on the topic here. The evidence used to measure the device’s performance should be scientifically and clinically justified, consistent with the level of risk for the proposed change.

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We Have an LDT Proposed Rule!

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For more than 30 years, FDA has asserted that it has jurisdiction to regulate LDTs as medical devices and clinical laboratories as manufacturers. As we have blogged about extensively over the years, FDA has initiated, but not completed, many efforts through different means to create a regulatory framework for LDTs.

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Second Circuit Agrees that Copay Assistance Programs May Violate the Anti-Kickback Statute

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Pfizer manufactures tafamidis, a breakthrough treatment for a rare, progressive heart condition known as transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy. Whether the Beneficiary Inducement Statute (BIS) is relevant to interpreting the AKS (essentially, no). Background. Pfizer set the price of tafamidis at $225,000 for each one-year course of treatment.

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FDA Wants Your Input on Cybersecurity for Servicing of Medical Devices

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We have previously posted blogs about FDA’s increasing interest on cybersecurity both in the premarket (see our past blog posts here , here , and here ) and the postmarket space (see our past blog posts here and here ). FDA is now expanding its cybersecurity effort in servicing of medical devices. privileged access issue)?

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Proposed LDT Rule Raises Many Questions but Provides Few Answers

FDA Law

There is much to unpack, and we intend to do so in a series of blog posts. The brevity of this change belies the foreseeably seismic impact of FDA regulation of clinical laboratories on the healthcare system. Future blog posts will analyze FDA’s legal authority as well as FDA’s claimed public health need for LDT regulation.