Medtronic plc reported a voluntary recall of certain insulin pumps after customers said a single drop, bump, or physical impact could shorten their battery life.
China’s National Medical Products Administration wrapped up a revision of its device classification procedures, providing entries into one of the world’s largest markets a mechanism for obtaining means for determining the risk of a novel device type.
It’s well past time for the U.S. FDA to end its silence on what device patents can be listed in the Orange Book as part of a drug-device combination product, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) said in an Oct. 1 letter that took FDA Commissioner Robert Califf to task for letting the FTC do the FDA’s job.
Setpoint Medical Inc. received U.S. FDA investigational device exemption approval to initiate a study of its neuroimmune modulation platform in people living with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. Setpoint plans to launch the 60-person trial in 2025 to evaluate the use of its implantable neurostimulation device to slow or reverse the nerve damage characteristic of multiple sclerosis.
Tokyo-based Olympus Corp. launched a new video imaging platform called Visera S (OTV-S500) in Europe and select Asian countries September 2024 while advancing more rollouts for the product worldwide.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office opted to allow the 2.0 pilot version of the After Final Consideration Program to expire, bringing to an end a program that ran for longer than a decade.
The controversy over conflicts of interest for Jeff Shuren, formerly the director of the U.S. FDA’s device center, reached Capitol Hill and may lead to an executive branch investigation into the matter.
The Pi-Cardia Ltd. Shortcut — the catheter-based, leaflet modification solution for treating heart valves — received U.S. FDA clearance. The device was granted breakthrough device designation from the regulatory agency and is designed to split bioprosthetic aortic valve leaflets in patients undergoing valve-in-valve transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedures who are at risk of coronary obstruction.
GE Healthcare Technologies Inc. received U.S. FDA approval for its novel radiotracer, Flyrcado (flurpiridaz F-18), for use in the diagnosis of myocardial ischemia or infarction in patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease.