With the rapidly evolving regulatory landscape, staying on top of the latest updates is crucial for companies in biopharma and medical devices. In this briefing, we highlight recent regulatory and legislative developments...more
4/28/2025
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On March 31, 2025, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas vacated the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) final rule, in which FDA attempted to assert regulatory authority over laboratory-developed...more
On March 3, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a policy statement rescinding a decades-old administrative exemption for notice-and-comment rulemaking known as the Richardson Waiver. Written...more
3/7/2025
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With the rapidly evolving regulatory landscape, staying on top of the latest updates is crucial for companies in biopharma and medical devices. In this briefing, we highlight recent regulatory and legislative developments...more
On January 7, 2025, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) made available a draft guidance for industry (GFI) titled “Considerations for the Use of Artificial Intelligence to Support Regulatory Decision-Making for Drug and...more
On January 7, 2025, FDA published “Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Device Software Functions: Lifecycle Management and Marketing Submission Recommendations; Draft Guidance for Industry and Food and Drug Administration Staff”...more
With the rapidly evolving regulatory landscape, staying on top of the latest updates is crucial for companies in biopharma and medical devices. In this briefing, we highlight recent regulatory and legislative developments...more
On August 6, 2024, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) partnered with the Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI) to hold a joint, public workshop titled, “Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Drug & Biological Product...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is all about hard science, and correlation of variables is not evidence of causation. To make a regulatory decision, FDA has long held that line, requiring evidence of actual occurrences...more
On July 9, 2024, the Food and Drug Administrations (FDA) replaced a 10-year-old draft industry guidance on misinformation and social media information on prescription drugs and medical devices. The new guidance assists...more
The Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) (Title 2 of the Drug Quality and Security Act, P.L. 113-54 (Nov 27, 2013)) amended Chapter V of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act) by adding subchapter H —...more
On March 15, the United States Food & Drug Administration published a white paper entitled “Artificial Intelligence & Medical Products: How CBER, CDER, CDRH, and OCP are Working Together.” FDA announced the paper by sharing a...more
In December 2023, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a final guidance, “Verification Systems Under the Drug Supply Chain Security Act for Certain Prescription Drugs,” explaining the agency’s interpretation of the...more