Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 236: Advocating for Accessible Diagnoses with Sydney Severance of Operation Upright
Federal Court Strikes Down FDA Rule on LDTs - Thought Leaders in Health Law®
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 233: Prioritizing Women’s Health Through Innovation with Lindsey Calcutt of Incora Health
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 228: Designing & Manufacturing Auto-Injectors with Kimberlee Steele of SHL Medical
Building a Business at the Intersection of Neurodata and Innovation With Rob Cooley
AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business Podcast - Episode 26: U.S. Enforcement Trends Targeting Foreign Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Manufacturers
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 209: North Carolina’s Life Sciences Industry with Laura Gunter of NCLifeSci
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 208: Extended Reality Technology and the ThinkReality Headset with Mattney Beck of Lenovo
AI in the Operating Room: Liability Issues for Device Makers — The Good Bot Podcast
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 201: SHL Medical’s Investment in the Carolinas with Kimberlee Steele of SHL Medical
The FDA's Response to AI Medical Innovation — The Good Bot Podcast
Meet Meaghan Luster: Patent Litigation Associate at Wolf Greenfield
FDA Releases Laboratory-Developed Tests Final Rule – Thought Leaders in Health Law
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 177: Brain Health and Research with Dr. Fridriksson, Neuroscientist, Professor, & Vice President of Research at the Universit
Transparency and the Open Payments Program
Medical Device Legal News with Sam Bernstein: Episode 19
Medical Device Legal News with Sam Bernstein: Episode 18
Medical Device Legal News with Sam Bernstein: Episode 17
Health + Tech - Improving Cancer Care With Digital Health Tools
Medical Device Legal News with Sam Bernstein: Episode 14
On August 6, 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) became the latest governmental agency to confirm that fluoropolymers are both safe and necessary. After an independent safety review of fluoropolymers in medical...more
Recently, it was reported that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is launching two cross-agency artificial intelligence (AI) councils. One AI council will be tasked with addressing how the agency uses AI internally...more
As we noted in our previous blog post, HealthBench, an open-source benchmark developed by OpenAI, measures model performance across realistic health care conversations, providing a comprehensive assessment of both...more
Summary The Ohio State Dental Board (the “Board”) recently updated its position statement, “Role of the Dentist in the Treatment of Sleep-disordered Breathing.” ...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
Neil Young once sang of adapting to a world ruled by data and digital minds in “Computer Age.” Today, that vision feels increasingly real as the Food and Drug Administration turns to artificial intelligence (“AI”) in the face...more
On May 30, 2025, the Department of Health and Human Services released additional information regarding the Trump administration’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 budget request. The release of these FY26 budget materials is timely as...more
On April 15, 2025, Canada’s Drug Agency (CDA) released its new five-year strategic plan, Insight to Impact 2025-2030. Formerly the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH), this is the CDA’s first...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been ahead of the curve for a number of years on emerging issues and opportunities for the agency and regulated industry arising from the advent and evolution of artificial...more
On March 31, 2025, Judge Sean D. Jordan of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued an opinion and judgment in American Clinical Laboratory Association v. FDA. Judge Jordan’s decision vacates and sets...more
On September 24, 2024, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) at the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a report titled, “Additional Oversight of Remote Patient Monitoring in Medicare Is Needed” (the...more
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the power to revolutionize health care. In oncology, there are now opportunities to apply AI to support diagnostics, predictive analytics, and administrative functions. This hot topic was...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA” or the “Agency”) has issued a final report discussing the results of its Software Precertification Pilot Program (the “Pilot Program”). Importantly, the September 26, 2022 report...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Health Canada, and the United Kingdom’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) jointly issued a guidance document entitled, “Good Machine Learning Practice for...more
The Food and Drug Administration Center for Devices and Radiological Health is soliciting feedback on how materials information about medical devices should be communicated to patients and healthcare providers. On May 20,...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning patients and healthcare providers of a “higher than expected risk” of failure in Stryker Scandinavian Total Ankle Replacement (STAR) devices. According to the FDA, the...more
Das Bundeskabinett hat am 20. Januar 2021 den Entwurf zum Gesetz zur digitalen Modernisierung von Versorgung und Pflege verabschiedet (Digitale-Versorgung-und Pflegemodernisierungsgesetz (DVPMG)), dem ein Referentenentwurf...more
In our first two Device Modernization series posts, we discussed FDA’s 510(k) modernization efforts and the proposed De Novo regulation. FDA has also had a heavy hand in legislative efforts to retool oversight of laboratory...more
On 19 February 2019 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the agency) released a draft guidance entitled, "Nonbinding Feedback After Certain FDA Inspections of Device Establishments" (draft guidance) for comment. ...more
On 1 February 2019, the European Commission published a new Q&A document to give further guidance on the Notice to stakeholders-withdrawal of the United Kingdom and EU rules in the field of industrial products (“the Notice”)....more
Introduction The European Commission has published a factsheet addressed to competent authorities of third countries....more
The U.S. government shutdown that began December 22, 2018 affected only about a quarter of federal agencies, because most had already been funded for FY 2019. Unfortunately, FDA is one of the agencies with at least some...more
On 20 November 2018, the European Commission published nine new documents intended to provide guidance to non-EU authorities and economic operators in relation to the Medical Devices Regulation (“MDR”) and In vitro Diagnostic...more
The 21st Century Cures Act ushers in significant changes to the regulatory review of drug/biologic/device combination products. The regulation of combination products has been somewhat unpredictable and muddled over the last...more
The Cures Act aims to increase the speed by which new drugs are brought to market by streamlining clinical trials, allowing the use of patient data in the regulatory review process, and modernizing U.S. Food and Drug...more