On February 5, 2025 Valneva SE (“Valneva”) announced that the United Kingdom’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) granted marketing authorization for Valneva’s chikungunya vaccine, IXCHIQ. ...more
As the life sciences, medtech, and diagnostic industries continue to expand and grow increasingly complex, so does the legal, regulatory, and compliance landscape....more
Device manufacturers may soon have access to a new framework for marketing and selling medical devices in the United Kingdom. On May 21, 2024, the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) published...more
As the life sciences, medtech, and diagnostic industries continue to expand and grow increasingly complex, so does the legal, regulatory, and compliance landscape. To help companies and investors navigate the many evolving...more
Earlier today, UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) granted conditional marketing authorization to Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics for their CRISPR/Cas9 gene therapy, CASGEVY...more
On November 17, 2022, Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced the “Biosimilar Red Tape Elimination Act” to increase biosimilar competition and reduce patient costs by prohibiting the FDA from requiring switching studies to approve...more
This week the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), along with Health Canada and the United Kingdom’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), identified 10 guiding principles to inform the development...more
On October 27, 2021, pursuant to the Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML)-Based Software as a Medical Device Action Plan (Action Plan), the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released its Good Machine Learning...more
The World Health Organization (WHO) has determined that the 2019 novel coronavirus is a “global pandemic” and President Trump has declared a national emergency as the impact of the virus on all aspects of daily life continues...more
Healthcare apps are becoming a greater part of everyday life. The increasing prominence and functionality of these apps has lead to the question of when healthcare apps should be regulated as medical devices. In the United...more