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The FDA has updated its Medical Device Shortages List to remove Specimen Collection, Laboratory Reagents and Testing Supplies, Transport Media Device, Saline Vascular Access Flush, and Certain Ventilation-Related Products....more
For the last three years, the federal government has taken considerable steps to aid providers in the fight against COVID-19. Although many of the waivers and flexibilities initiated in response to the pandemic have since...more
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced transition plans for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA)-authorized medical devices and devices marketed pursuant to COVID-19-related guidance documents. The Transition...more
The Biden administration announced on January 30, 2023, that it plans to terminate the COVID-19 public health emergency declaration (the “PHE declaration”) on May 11, 2023. COVID-19 EUA medical products and policies- As FDA...more
The coming end to the COVID-19 public health emergency doesn’t mean the end of all FDA authorities exercised during the pandemic. Our FDA/Food, Drug & Device Team explores what will happen to the FDA’s emergency use...more
On October 17, 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) released the list of guidance documents proposed for publication in fiscal year 2023. While it is unclear if...more
Bob Dylan sang, “Tell Me, I’ve Got to Know.” In January 2022, the Food and Drug Administration said the same to the medical device industry when it issued a draft guidance, “Notifying the FDA of a Permanent Discontinuance or...more
On Monday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued the draft guidance “Notifying the FDA of a Permanent Discontinuance or Interruption in Manufacturing of a Device Under Section 506J of the FD&C Act,” which aims to...more
On December 22, 2021, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published draft guidance documents for manufacturers of devices that were issued Emergency Use Authorizations (EUAs) or were subject to relaxed enforcement policies...more
On December 22, 2021, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published two draft guidance documents intended to help medical device manufacturers transition out of the temporary rules put in place for the duration of the...more
During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the Agency) issued a series of Emergency Use Authorizations (EUAs) and guidance...more
Agencies of the federal government with a consumer protection mission have always tended to work closely together and to share information, but the COVID-19 pandemic has made those cooperative efforts even more visible to the...more
Emergency Use Authorizations will play a role as the pandemic eases, but a transition to ordinary course approvals is underway. As long as the COVID-related emergency is deemed to exist, fast-tracked FDA regulatory...more
Premarket Notification Again Required for Patient and Surgeon's Examination Gloves and Dozens of Class II Devices Proposed for Exemption by Former HHS Secretary - On April 16, 2021, the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”...more
On Wednesday, April 14, 2021, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a long-awaited final guidance document explaining its policy for conducting remote “evaluations” during COVID-19. According to the guidance,...more
While requiring vaccinations for school attendance and in some occupations is common, the issue of employers requiring vaccination for COVID-19 is currently a hot topic. There is currently no Food and Drug Administration...more
CMS is soliciting comments on whether future payments for devices that may have been impacted by the COVID-19 PHE should be adjusted. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued its annual proposed rule related...more
On March 27, 2020, President Trump signed into law the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), the purpose of which is to provide emergency assistance and health care responses for individuals,...more