New On Demand Dr. Nick: The Incrementalist: With guest Amy Abernethy, MD, Ph.D. the Principal Deputy Commissioner & Acting CIO for the FDA. We had talked in January at CES about the forthcoming meeting focused on the FDA’s Technology Modernization Action Plan but as a result of the COVID19 pandemic, the meeting was postponed to Jun 30.
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We’ve rounded up some of the latest news and announcements pertaining to the coronavirus and the healthcare industry.
By Christina Jewett – FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb announced in a tweet recently that the agency plans to release hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of previously unpublished injury and malfunction reports tied to about 100 medical devices.
By Shefali Luthra – In an almost uniform response to the impending exit of Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, city and county public health officials are urging the Trump administration to go bigger in its response to adolescents’ growing use of e-cigarettes.
From Kaiser Health News Network – Their latest podcast, What the Health, This week, The resignation of Scott Gottlieb as commissioner of the Food and…
FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb announced he will be leaving his position next month. The White House has confirmed a resignation was not requested. Reason for departure only states that he wants to spend more time with his family.
Seth L. Sherman, MD, a sports medicine orthopaedic surgeon at University of Missouri Health Care’s Missouri Orthopaedic Institute, recently became one of the first American…
From Kaiser Health News Network – Their latest podcast, What the Health, episode 73, This week, The Food and Drug Administration took some serious steps…
By Kayla Matthews – Since 1976, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has offered a fast-track approval process for medical device manufacturers that could prove their products were substantially similar to approved items that were already in the marketplace.