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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...

FDLI hosted a virtual Enforcement, Litigation, and Compliance Conference December 9–10, 2021. The session titled Compliance Central with FDA Center Compliance Directors: Presentations and Q&A addressed...

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/PRNewswire/ -- Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced several actions related to surgical stapler and staple regulation and safety. "At the...

/PRNewswire/ -- Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced several actions related to surgical stapler and staple regulation and safety. "At the...

Reclassification to higher risk category was years in the making

Inspectors repeatedly found manufacturing and device quality problems with the HeartWare heart pump. But the FDA did not penalize the company, and patients had the device implanted on their hearts without knowing the facts.

[author: Heather Hatcher, Ph.D.] A year into the current public health emergency, the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) announced on Thursday, April 15, 2021, that the center is “prioritizing and triaging our work using existing resources in order to focus on our COVID-19 response, resulting in delays in some other work areas.” Dr. Jeff Shuren, Director, CDRH, and Dr. William Maisel, Director, Office of Product Evaluation and Quality at CDRH, reported that the astoun...

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‘False sense of security’: Study finds some thermal imaging temperature checks show inaccurate readings By Kelly Hayes What we know about children and COVID-19 vaccines When will children be able to get COVID-19 vaccines? It depends on the childs age, but some teenagers could be rolling up their sleeves soon. Since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, many people have undergone thermal imaging temperature checks at schools, airports, workplaces and even sports venues — part of a l...