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The FDA announced July 31, 2014 that it intends to issue a draft guidance soon that would require moderate- and high-risk diagnostics to obtain 510(k) or premarket approval, regardless of their place of origin, putting an end to a battle to regulate laboratory-developed tests (LDTs) that’s been waged for several years.  The planned draft guidance on the regulatory oversight of LDTs ,had been held up by the White House Office of Management and Budget since 2010.

Could the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) soon use Google to track drug-related adverse events?  In a new research letter published this week in Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, two FDA researchers argue that “Internet search logs” could be substantially useful to the agency’s drug regulatory staff in determining which drugs might have unforeseen adverse events.

Every type of cancer is unique depending on which cells are affected, how it spreads, and what causes it to arise in the first place.  That has been the basic understanding that has marked cancer as an overarching concept for a variety of uniquely different diseases and so each cancer required its own diagnostic mechanism and treatment regimen.

Automatic Test Detects Secondary Cataracts with High Precision

Global orthopedic trauma fixation devices market to reach $9.3B by 2020; the global orthopedic trauma fixation devices market is expected to grow to $9.3 billion by 2020, according to a Transparency Market Research report.

New materials regulations in the European Union (EU) mean medical devices have onemore layer of red tape to cut through before they can reach the market.

The FDA is cutting the fiscal 2015 user fees paid by medical device companies to have their products reviewed by 3% across the board.

Google isn’t just searching the Internet.  The company will soon search the insides of people’s bodies for new biomarkers by collecting their urine, blood, saliva and tears as part of its Baseline Study initiative.

The National Institutes of Health is launching three new programs in emerging areas with the lofty goal of transforming biomedical research in the next 5 to 10 years.

Complications of diabetes are more easily treated when they are found early.  Researchers at National Taiwan University Hospital have developed a wearable optical device to detect diabetic autonomic neuropathy, a common diabetic complication, that could be better than existing detection methods.