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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. Although mHealth has been gaining in popularity for at least the past decade, before commercializing their mHealth products, developers must determine whether the product is subject to U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulation as a medical device.

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Monkeypox Test Kit in Development by Becton Dickinson in Partnership with CerTest Biotec

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Leading global medical technology company Becton Dickinson (BD) and Spain’s CerTest Biotec have announced they will be collaborating to develop a molecular diagnostic test for the detection of the monkeypox virus. Related: Monkeypox Case Reported in the US as Virus Spreads Across Europe and North America.

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WHO Information Notice for IVD Users

The Pharma Data

Description of the problem : WHO has received user feedback on an elevated risk for false SARS-CoV-2 results when testing specimens using RT-PCR reagents on open systems. . In the early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, in vitro diagnostics (IVDs) were rapidly developed, validated and verified, and then rolled out.

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Expert view: What’s next for cell and gene therapy?

Drug Discovery World

Skills gap Bruce Levine, International Society for Cell & Gene Therapy (ISCT) Immediate Past President and Chair, Strategic Advisory Council, says a critical challenge that has become apparent for the CGT sector is the need for workforce development and training resources. What are the global innovations in cell and gene therapy?

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It’s My Party and I’ll Cry if I Want to: A Bittersweet Happy 30th Birthday to LDTs

FDA Law Blog

Mullen — Happy Birthday Laboratory Developed Tests (LDTs). Thirty years ago today, FDA announced that it had the authority to regulate you. Food and Drug Administration, Compliance Policy Guide, Commercialization of Unapproved In Vitro Diagnostic Devices Labeled for Research and Investigation (Aug. By Jeffrey N. 92P-0405 (Aug.

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

FDA Law Blog

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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Proposed LDT Rule Raises Many Questions but Provides Few Answers

FDA Law Blog

Javitt & Philip Won — As we reported last week, FDA has issued a 26 page, single spaced, tiny-font Proposed Rule of Laboratory Developed Tests (LDTs). The brevity of this change belies the foreseeably seismic impact of FDA regulation of clinical laboratories on the healthcare system.