In 2025, Life Sciences and Health Care (LS&HC) companies face rapidly evolving regulatory paradigms that create transactional risks and require daily monitoring. After more than 70 national elections in 2024, the dust hasn’t...more
8/25/2025
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On January 7, 2024, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published the draft guidance “Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Device Software Functions: Lifecycle Management and Marketing Submission Recommendations,” which...more
1/15/2025
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Cybersecurity ,
Data Management ,
Draft Guidance ,
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
Life Sciences ,
Machine Learning ,
Medical Devices ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Risk Assessment ,
Risk Management ,
Software
Amid continued rapid development of novel software products that present new opportunities in the health care space, FDA has yet to grant marketing authorization to a medical device incorporating artificial intelligence (AI)...more
Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finalized guidance on the types of information that should be included in a Predetermined Change Control Plan (PCCP) as part of a marketing submission for an artificial...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has published new draft guidance on “Predetermined Change Control Plans for Medical Devices,” which describes the process by which device sponsors may seek FDA approval for...more
In the Eastern District of Texas U.S. federal court, the American Clinical Laboratory Association (ACLA) and its member company, HealthTrackRx, have filed a lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), claiming the...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has finalized its historic — and notoriously controversial — rule to explicitly assert the agency’s authority to regulate laboratory developed tests (LDTs). Below we summarize the...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently issued the final guidance, Content of Premarket Submissions for Device Software Functions, which provides an updated framework by which sponsors should determine the...more
Products incorporating artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) algorithms have enormous potential for health care. The power of AI can enhance the capabilities of software that has the potential to benefit more...more
On March 30, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published draft guidance that proposes recommendations on the types of information that should be included in a Predetermined Change Control Plan (PCCP) in a marketing...more
In the waning days of FDA’s fiscal year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued the greatly anticipated final guidance “Clinical Decision Support Software,” which aims to clarify the scope of the FDA’s oversight...more
On August 2, 2021, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a final rule to amend its “intended use” regulations, codified at 21 CFR § 801.4 for medical devices and 21 CFR § 201.128 for drugs. This updated final...more
8/5/2021
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Life Sciences ,
Manufacturers ,
Medical Devices ,
Off-Label Use ,
Physicians ,
Product Labels
On April 16, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a notice of withdrawal of their January 15 proposal to exempt 84 medical device types ...more
On September 23, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a proposed rule to modify its intended use regulations to clarify the types of evidence FDA will consider when determining the “intended use” of a medical...more
From analysis of medical imaging such as echocardiograms, computed tomography (CT), endoscopy, and skin photographs, to tissue histology and physiological data such as electrocardiograms (ECG), these technologies have...more
Last week the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a proposed set of new regulations to further define and update the De Novo review process. Although De Novo review has been available for two decades, for the past 20...more
On Wednesday, FDA announced that it filed two complaints in federal court seeking injunctions to stop marketing efforts of unapproved stem cell treatments by US Stem Cell Clinic of Sunrise, Florida, and California Stem Cell...more
5/14/2018
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Enforcement Actions ,
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
Injunctions ,
Life Sciences ,
Patient Safety ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Regenerative Medicine ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Regulatory Standards ,
Stem cells