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Anyone who has submitted a medical device for pre-market review knows the financial investment it takes to for FDA to conduct its review. Under the Medical Device User Fee Amendments (MDUFA), certain submissions, including...more
TELA Bio—which was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Pennsylvania—is a medical device company that specializes in providing soft-tissue surgical products. According to TELA Bio, its soft-tissue reconstruction solutions...more
Developing a medical product, such as a medical device, comes with important milestones that can cause a project to sink or swim. One major milestone is amassing the clinical data needed to support pre-market submissions....more
Byonyks, a medical device company focused on advancing dialysis care, today announced that it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for the Byonyks X1 APD Cycler, an automated peritoneal...more
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whom President-elect Trump has said will “go wild on health” in his administration, posted shortly before the election...more
The Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") recently issued revised draft guidance on remote regulatory assessments ("RRAs")—voluntary or mandatory examinations of food, drug, device, and tobacco establishments and/or their...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published its long-awaited final rule to amend the Quality System Regulation’s (QSR’s) current good manufacturing practice (CGMP) requirements for medical devices. The final rule...more
The highly anticipated rule, which would make explicit that LDTs are medical devices subject to FDA oversight, proposes to end the agency's general enforcement discretion approach to such devices....more
On August 15, 2023, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued its updated guidance on informed consent for clinical investigations. The FDA’s updated guidance is titled Informed Consent Guidance for IRBs, Clinical...more
Neuralink, the biotechnology company founded by Elon Musk, has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to commence human trials of its implantable brain-computer interface device. Recruitment for...more
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the Agency) recently issued its draft guidance titled “Marketing Submission Recommendations for a Predetermined Change Control Plan for Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning...more
Embedded in the thousands of pages of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 (the omnibus legislation) that President Joe Biden signed into law on December 29, 2022, is a section that amends the Food, Drug and Cosmetic...more
In two draft companion guidance documents, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) establishes a proposed framework for transitioning medical devices currently marketed under emergency use authorization (EUA) or enforcement...more
On August 9, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a notice announcing its implementation of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit’s April 2021 decision in Genus Medical Technologies LLC v. U.S. Food...more
Arnall Golden Gregory LLP's Food & Drug Newsletter is a monthly update of legal and regulatory issues that affect the FDA-regulated community and highlights articles from members of our Food & Drug practice, as well as from...more
On September 9, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) updated its online FAQs, entitled “Adverse Event Reporting for Medical Devices Under Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) or Discussed in COVID-19-Related Guidance...more
As the COVID-19 outbreak expands, supply chains have been stressed for general use face masks, surgical masks, and similar disposable devices for filtering airborne particulates, as well as medical face shields. To help...more
As the number of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. grows, the potential shortage of ventilators has become an increasing concern. This week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) took two important steps to keep medical...more
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for ventilators, anesthesia gas machines modified for use as ventilators, and positive pressure breathing devices modified for use as...more
Amid reported shortages of ventilators, accessories, and other respiratory devices resulting from the spread of novel coronavirus COVID-19, FDA issued a letter to health care providers and new guidance on 22 March 2020,...more
The White House is reportedly in discussions with US auto companies to aid in the coronavirus (COVID-19) relief effort by producing ventilators, and some US distilleries have already switched manufacturing operations to make...more
The legal definitions of a drug and a medical device set forth in the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act have some important overlapping provisions. Because of the overlapping provisions, theoretically the U.S. Food and Drug...more
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has released a final guidance document entitled, “Consideration of Uncertainty in Making Benefit-Risk Determinations in Medical Device Premarket Approvals, De Novo Classifications,...more
In the simplest case for federal preemption, federal law prohibits conduct that a state tort duty would require, such as a change in the design of an approved medical device to cure an alleged defect. Because federal law is...more
In our “FDA 2018 Year in Review (and a Few Thoughts on 2019)” post and recent webinar, we observed that we may look back at 2018 as the beginning of the end for the 510(k) program as it has existed since the 1976 Medical...more