Without pomp or circumstance, Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA) introduced a bill on March 27, 2017, that would expand the communications pharmaceutical and medical device companies can have with doctors about their products. The bill, titled the Medical Product Communications Act of 2017, seeks to clarify …
Not long ago, we recommended that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) begin a new rulemaking to update the intended use regulation. We promised a blog post to get the ball rolling with suggestions for improvement. The time has arrived. In the discussion below, the first …
One and a half years since FDA first proposed changes, two months since the final rule was published, one month after objections threatening an Administrative Procedure Act challenge, and one day before the rules would have taken effect, FDA announced on Monday that it would …
On March 14, in the Federal Register, FDA published a list of Class II devices that the agency proposes exempting from the 510(k) requirements. A copy of the Federal Register notice can be found here. As you may recall from our earlier post, Section 3054 …
We recently blogged about whether FDA’s recent amendment to the intended use regulation could be considered essentially null and void based upon a failure to comply with the Congressional Review Act. Apparently, this suggestion caused quite a stir and even excitement in some quarters, as it …
A few weeks ago, we blogged about FDA’s final rule amending the “intended use” regulation. The final rule looks very different than the proposed rule, and adopts a new “totality of the evidence” standard that does not resolve the old problems with the regulation but …
In January 2017, FDA issued two Draft Guidance documents concerning communications made by medical device manufacturers about information not expressly contained within a product’s labeling: Medical Product Communications That Are Consistent With the FDA-Required Labeling – Questions and Answers: Guidance for Industry [Draft] (January 2017), hereinafter …
Ten years ago, Congress commanded FDA to ease the burden of Medical Device Reporting (MDR) for most class I and class II devices. Four years ago, we blogged about it here. FDA still has not gotten it done. Specifically, Section 227 of the Food and Drug …
In 2015, FDA proposed revising the so-called intended use regulation (21 CFR 201.128; id. § 801.4) to remove the famous “knowledge” sentence: “But if a manufacturer knows, or has knowledge of facts that would give him notice, that a [drug or device] introduced into interstate commerce …
In late November, FDA announced that it would not be finalizing the 2014 draft LDT Guidance. The Agency had, however, done a significant amount of work regarding the draft guidance and evaluating the regulatory framework for lab tests. In an effort to document the work …
On January 20, 2017, the Trump administration took a first step toward delaying, reconsidering, and potentially undoing numerous regulations and policies issued by the Obama administration. In order to ensure that “the President’s appointees or designees have the opportunity to review any new or pending …
It feels like déjà vu. In 2011, FDA announced the establishment of a docket to evaluate its policies on communications and activities related to off-label uses of marketed products; late in 2014, FDA committed to issuing new guidance by the end of 2014 to address …
As part of its end of year rush to issue guidance documents, FDA issued a final guidance document, Medical Device Accessories: Describing Accessories and Classification Pathway for New Accessory Types, on December 30, 2016. The title page of a guidance document rarely has anything to …
Last week, FDA finalized the guidance document, “Postmarket Management of Cybersecurity in Medical Devices.” We previously blogged on the draft guidance released in early 2016 (here). The final guidance is similar to the draft issued in early 2016. There are, however, several noteworthy and significant edits. In …
Our firm has previously posted some summaries of the 21st Century Cures Act (Cures Act), which the President signed into law on December 13, 2016 (Public Law No. 114-255). (Those summaries are available here, here, and here.) This post focuses on only one section of the …
