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.
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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.
From Kaiser Health News Network – Their latest podcast, What the Health, episode 63, This week, The Food and Drug Administration declared that vaping among…
By William A. Hyman – The FDA took two recent actions in the domain of CDS for radiological image interpretation. One was to permit the marketing under the De Novo program of software for the interpretation of fractures of the wrist.
By William A. Hyman – It has long been clear that the FDA can regulate software that falls under the definition of a medical device. Such software might be part of and integral to a more physical chunk of technology.