On May 2, 2023, FDA published a draft guidance for Decentralized Clinical Trials for Drugs, Biological Products, and Devices – Guidance for Industry, Investigators and Other StakeHolders. In this draft guidance, the FDA states that “regulatory requirements for...
Background Beginning February 27, 2023, companies with early-stage, high-risk medical devices will have the opportunity to start submitting letters of interest to participate in the European Medicines Agency (EMA) scientific advice pilot. This pilot will give an...
The EU Medical Device Coordination Group has recently released document MDCG 2023-3 titled “Questions and Answers on vigilance terms and concepts as outlined in the Regulation (EU) 2017/745 on medical devices.” Its goal is to help competent authorities, economic...
In-house medical devices are exempted from most of the provisions of (EU) 2017/745 (Medical Devices Regulation) and (EU) 2017/746 (In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices Regulation), given that the health institution follows the conditions laid out in Article 5(5) of the...
In a recently released draft guidance document, the International Council for Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Pharmaceuticals for Human Use (ICH) describes general protocol design principles and approaches used to develop relevant documents for clinical...
