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Considerations for Mobile Health Technology Developers: Part 1

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The FDA’s General Approach to Regulating mHealth Products. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulation as a medical device. Determining whether a product is a medical device subject to FDA regulation necessarily begins with understanding the FDA regulatory definition of ‘medical device’. not a medical device, ii.

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Pharma in Brief’s 2023 Year in Review and Trends for 2024

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However, many details remain to be addressed in forthcoming regulations. CIPO consulted on proposed features of the regulations in 2023 (see here ), including many factors that would reduce the length of the PTA term. Draft regulations are expected to be released for consultation in 2024. The Guidance was last updated in 2005.

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Papa Can You Hear Me? Now You Can Thanks to OTC Hearing Aids

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Where a consumer spends additional money to receive an OTC hearing aid from a licensed professional, the consumer protections required to be provided by the licensed professional apply; otherwise, those consumer protections may not, as state consumer protections typically are required only of licensees.

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Surely You Must be Kidding, PTO?!? “No, and Don’t Call Me Shirley!” – The Seemingly Slapstick (But Yet Unfunny) World of Recent Patent Term Extension Decisions (PART 2)

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156, as added by the 1984 Hatch-Waxman Amendments, for certain FDA-regulated products. 156 or case law that would support extension of the ‘929 patent that claims the product despite revocation of the biologics license application. Karst — Earlier this week, we posted Part 1 of our three-part series on U.S.

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A Question 30 Years in the Making: Would a Final LDT Rule Withstand Judicial Scrutiny?

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Lenz, Principal Medical Device Regulation Expert & Sophia R. Gibbs — For more than three decades, FDA has claimed that the Federal Food, Drug & Cosmetic (FD&C Act) gives the agency legal authority to regulate laboratory developed tests (LDTs) as medical devices (see our prior post here ). Gaulkin & Jeffrey N.

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Considerations for Mobile Health Technology Developers: Part 2

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Criteria for regulation. The FDA regulates software that meets the definition of a medical device in section 201(h) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act). peer-reviewed clinical studies or clinical practice guidelines) meet Criterion 2 and are not medical devices subject to FDA regulation and oversight.

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FDA Approves First State Drug Importation Program Under 20-Year-Old Statute, But High Hurdles Remain

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Kirschenbaum — The law permitting the importation of cheaper prescription drugs from Canada—Section 804 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDC Act)—has been on the books for decades. This must be a Health Canada-licensed wholesaler that is registered with FDA as a foreign seller. By Faraz Siddiqui & Alan M.