FDA Law

JANUARY 18, 2022

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 discussion paper provides an overview of FDA’s current approach to regulation of 3D-printed devices. This guidance document is still in effect today.

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My Green Doctor

MAY 3, 2025

Medical waste is a broad term used to describe any waste products generated at healthcare facilities and includes everything ranging from the disposal of small needles to the energy consumption of radiologic scans. The breadth of services provided by modern day medicine is profound.

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My Green Doctor

MAY 3, 2025

Powering Health, Protecting the Planet – Why Renewable Energy Belongs in Every Clinic Healthcare professionals have always been trusted voices on public health. This isn’t just about saving the planet—it’s also about saving money, protecting patients, and strengthening our healthcare systems from the inside out.

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FDA Law

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Chemical characterization can also be useful in evaluating a change to the materials or manufacturing of a device. The draft guidance provides recommendations for collection and reporting of chemical characterization data and discusses the topics of information gathering, test article extraction, chemical analysis, and data reporting.

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FDA Law

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The crux of the proposed rule lies in the addition of ten words: “ including when the manufacturer of these products is a laboratory.” These words would be added to the definition of “ in vitro diagnostic [IVD] products” in 21 C.F.R. Change to the IVD definition First, the mechanics of the change.

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FDA Law

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Transparency This guiding principle calls for manufacturers to be transparent with users regarding the device performance before and after the implementation of the change. Guiding Principle 10 focused on monitoring the performance of the models and managing re-training risks.

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FDA Law

APRIL 25, 2023

Shapiro — Does your firm manufacture a “cyber device”? Congress has given FDA the authority to require device manufacturers to provide cybersecurity information in their premarket submissions for a “cyber device.” By Philip Won & Jeffrey K. This provision became effective as of March 29, 2023.

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FDA Law

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.

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FDA Law

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

According to the allegations in the complaint, approval of the new Los Angeles manufacturing facility required a Prior Approval Supplement (PAS) and a Pre-Approval Inspection (PAI) of the facility. These CIP equipment qualification reports were provided to the FDA in support of its PAS and PAI to approve the new facility.

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FDA Law

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

Instead, we focus here on the few notable statements that provide new or more detailed guidance than FDA has previously offered. MDR FDA discussed a few preliminary steps that it says laboratories should take prepare for submitting MDRs as medical device manufacturers. By Steven J. Gonzalez & Lisa M.

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FDA Law

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The six-page statement explains that “Brand drug manufacturers may be harming generic competition through the improper listing of patents in the. Koblitz & Kurt R. Karst — Listing patent information in the Orange Book is a matter of judgment, but that judgment call is about to get a bit more scrutiny.

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FDA Law

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

In its petition filed earlier this month, Pfizer challenges HHS’s interpretation of the AKS as “staggeringly overbroad,” contrary to the congressional intent behind the AKS, and a threat to “almost any activity that facilitates patient access to federally funded healthcare.” Background.

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FDA Law

JANUARY 5, 2023

Claud — As we turn into the New Year, we offer a few items of interest in digital and telehealth regulation, enforcement, and compliance that may provide some helpful guideposts for stakeholders. By John W.M. Combination products are sharing the digital moment with those classified solely as medical devices.

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FDA Law

AUGUST 23, 2022

After two negative tests, you should consider a molecular test, or call your healthcare provider. If the third test is negative, you should test again with an antigen test, or get a laboratory molecular-based test, or call your healthcare provider. But the question is, is 80% sensitivity the right place to set the bar?

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FDA Law

APRIL 4, 2023

By Philip Won — South Korea has made significant achievements over the years in the biohealth industry, establishing the world’s second-largest biopharmaceutical manufacturing capacity. South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol plans to provide full support to create a Korean version of the Boston Biotech Cluster.

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FDA Law

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

For more than 30 years, FDA has asserted that it has jurisdiction to regulate LDTs as medical devices and clinical laboratories as manufacturers. The proposed rule has a 60-day comment period for stakeholders. This proposed rule is a long-time coming.

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FDA Law

MAY 7, 2025

The Seventh Circuit took a more lenient approach than the Fourth Circuit, focusing its rationale on whether an independent contractor had improper influence over a healthcare providers independent healthcare decisions. Sorenson follows the Fifth Circuits decision last year in United States v. Marchetti, 96 F.4th Marchetti, 96 F.4th

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FDA Law

JUNE 16, 2023

Kirschenbaum — On May 24, Minnesota enacted the Commerce and Consumer Protection Omnibus Bill, Senate File 2744 ( SF 2744 ), which significantly expands the state’s existing drug pricing activities with serious implications for all drug manufacturers, and particularly generic drug manufacturers. We address each below. Best price?

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FDA Law

DECEMBER 12, 2022

How could the manufacturers even follow this guidance without illegally departing from their previously approved labeling? In an appendix, FDA provides a model “decision check list” for patients. You should place your initials in the location provided next to each item to indicate that you have read and understood the item.

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FDA Law

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is reminding patients and health care providers that the safety and effectiveness of robotically-assisted surgical (RAS) devices for use in mastectomy procedures or in the prevention or treatment of breast cancer have not been established. In this safety communication, FDA states: The U.S.

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FDA Law

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Although on its face the restriction applies to LDTs, collection device manufacturers could, as a consequence, effectively be precluded from continuing to market their specimen collection devices to labs offering LDTs which enable home collection unless they first obtain authorization specifically for home collection. Javitt & Jeffrey N.

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FDA Law

JUNE 22, 2023

To obtain clearance of an OTC home IVD, a sponsor must provide the usual suite of analytical and clinical validation that would be required for any IVD, demonstrating adequate repeatability, stability, sensitivity, specificity, and so on. By McKenzie E. Cato & Jeffrey N. Gibbs & Allyson B. lay users).

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FDA Law

JANUARY 5, 2025

In response to the proposed rule, approximately 200 comments were submitted to the docket, and a meeting took place among FDA, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA). Further elaboration of FDAs view would be helpful.

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FDA Law

JULY 5, 2023

Outsourcing facilities are not exempt from FDA’s cGMP for drug manufacturers (as lightly tweaked via cGMP Guidance for outsourcing facilities ) or adverse event reporting requirements , and are subject to regular inspection by FDA. Section II at 2. the wholesale distributor, repackager, relabeler). Draft Guidance III.B.2(d)

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GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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FDA Law

JANUARY 5, 2022

She has also held positions in regulatory affairs, quality assurance, and test engineering at GE Healthcare and Smiths Medical. As a Principal Medical Device Regulation Expert, Adrienne will continue to provide consulting to medical device and combination product manufacturers. Hyman, Phelps & McNamara, P.C. (HP&M)

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GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

COVID-19, masks, and hearing difficulty: Perspectives of healthcare providers. Association of Sensory and Cognitive Impairment With Healthcare Utilization and Cost in Older Adults. Think about the last time you attended a talk on communication skills or goals of care discussions. I’m guessing not. Meg: Thank you very much.

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FDA Law

JANUARY 5, 2022

She has also held positions in regulatory affairs, quality assurance, and test engineering at GE Healthcare and Smiths Medical. As a Principal Medical Device Regulation Expert, Adrienne will continue to provide consulting to medical device and combination product manufacturers. Hyman, Phelps & McNamara, P.C. (HP&M)

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FDA Law

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Testing should be in line with the device’s intended duration of implantation, but FDA may consider whether testing results for a shorter duration can be extrapolated to provide information about long-term performance. We find that this information is noteworthy for manufacturers to consider.

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FDA Law

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

FDA indicates that this guidance is intended to help manufacturers ensure consistent content and format of the statement of identity and strength for all nonprescription drug products, which then will allow consumers to compare products. For both draft guidances, it is unclear what induced FDA to publish these draft guidances now.

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FDA Law

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Most states have some form of naloxone standing order that allows a healthcare provider to write a prescription that covers a large group of people rather than just an individual patient. For example, the Maryland standing order allows all Maryland licensed pharmacists to dispense naloxone, including any necessary sup??

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FDA Law

JUNE 15, 2022

The hospitals argued that the profits helped them offset the considerable costs of providing healthcare to the uninsured and underinsured in low-income and rural communities, something that Congress was well aware of and intended when it passed the Medicare Prescription Drug, Im­provement, and Modernization Act in 2003. Becerra, No.

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FDA Law

JANUARY 26, 2022

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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FDA Law

AUGUST 7, 2023

Through ELP, CDRH staff visit sites that provide formal training and enhance understanding on topics such as how products are developed and how they fit into the larger healthcare system. The visits are intended purely to provide a training perspective, and not for CDRH staff to opine on any regulatory functions.

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FDA Law

AUGUST 8, 2024

Governors, state cannabis regulators, law enforcement groups and local governments weighed in, as did marijuana advocates and opponents, marijuana industry associations, Members of Congress, federal law enforcement groups, healthcare and human rights groups, unions and trade associations, and private individuals. 21 U.S.C. §

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FDA Law

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The Agency’s goal is demonstrated in its definition of patient engagement: “Patient engagement is defined as intentional, meaningful interactions with patients that provide opportunities for mutual learning, and effective collaborations.” .

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FDA Law

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

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 True, these tests will never provide the same diagnostic quality results as RT?PCR, PCR tests, but they provide a testing option better suited for mass screening. Why is that? Background.

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