Welcome to Regulatory Reconnaissance, your daily regulatory news and intelligence briefing.   In Focus: US When Will the Delta Surge End? ( NYT ) Why can’t America fix its Covid-19 testing problems? ( VOX ) Vaccination Rates Rose In August As COVID Cases Surged Due To The Delta Variant ( NPR ) First vaccination doses up 17 percent since Pfizer approval: analysis ( The Hill ) Companies eye financial penalties for unvaccinated workers ( The Hill ) America has waste...

  Welcome to Regulatory Reconnaissance, your daily regulatory news and intelligence briefing.   In Focus: US Percentage of Americans who say they won't get vaccinated drops to record low in new poll ( The Hill ) US demand for COVID-19 antibody treatments rising fast ( PMLive ) CDC Staff Floats 'Risk-Based Approach' to Potential Booster Doses ( MPT ) CDC panel unanimously endorses full approval of Pfizer’s Covid vaccine for people 16 and older ( CNBC ) Nearly 1 m...

  Welcome to Regulatory Reconnaissance, your daily regulatory news and intelligence briefing.   In Focus: US COVID-19 Deaths And Hospitalizations Continue To Rise In The U.S. ( NPR ) HHS Lifts Pause on Lilly's Monoclonal Antibody Combo, Sort Of ( MPT ) U.S. CDC advisers vote in favor of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine ( Reuters ) Baxter in late-stage talks to buy Hillrom for about $10B: WSJ ( MedTech Dive ) Reimbursement begins slowly for Biogen’s expensive Alzheimer’s ...

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the EU’s Heads of Medicines Agencies (HMA) have issued an ambitious workplan for a joint steering group to tackle issues related to big data in healthcare and medicines development.   The steering group’s 2021-2023 work plan, adopted in June and published Friday, “aims to increase the utility of big data in regulation, from data quality through study methods to assessment and decision-making,” according to EMA’s big data webpage...

Welcome to Regulatory Reconnaissance, your daily regulatory news and intelligence briefing.   In Focus: US FDA warns of pacemaker-iPhone interference ( Healthcare IT News ) Opinion: Expanding the domestic public health supply chain is a matter of national security ( STAT ) BD gets emergency FDA nod for smartphone-enabled COVID-19 antigen test ( MedTech Dive ) Ivermectin Scripts, Poison Center Calls Boom During Delta Surge ( MPT ) U.S. COVID-19 tests again in short...

Notified bodies who certify quality management systems related to device repackaging and relabeling have new guidance from the European Commission’s Medical Devices Coordinating Group (EC’s MDCG).   The guidance covers activities conducted under Article 16(4) of the Medical Device Regulation (MDR) and the In Vitro Device Regulation (IVDR) related to repackaging and relabeling of medical devices. The overall goal of the notified body’s certification activities under t...

Welcome to Regulatory Reconnaissance, your daily regulatory news and intelligence briefing.   In Focus: US Six U.S. states do not join $26B opioid settlements with distributors, J&J ( Reuters ) ‘We Sent a Terrible Message’: Scientists Say Biden Jumped the Gun With Vaccine Booster Plan ( KHN ) Fauci says he hopes U.S. will have ‘some good control’ over Covid by spring 2022 ( CNBC ) American Medical Association calls for public, private sectors to mandate vaccines ( ...

  Welcome to Regulatory Reconnaissance, your daily regulatory news and intelligence briefing.   In Focus: US Pfizer's COVID Vaccine Gets Full Approval From The FDA ( NPR ) ( NYT ) ( NBC ) Biden calls on companies to mandate vaccines following FDA full approval ( The Hill ) Pentagon set to make Pfizer vaccine mandatory after FDA approval ( Reuters ) New York City, The Country's Largest School System, Mandates Teacher Vaccinations ( NPR ) The U.S. Is Getting a Cra...

  Welcome to Regulatory Reconnaissance, your daily regulatory news and intelligence briefing.   In Focus: US Maker of Popular Covid Test Told Factory to Destroy Inventory ( NYT ) Acting FDA Chief Janet Woodcock Ruled Out as Biden Nominee ( Bloomberg ) Child Covid-19 hospitalizations soar, filling pediatric wings, data show ( NBC ) White House: More than one million vaccine doses administered in past 24 hours ( The Hill ) Three senators announce positive COVID-19...

MHRA seeks feedback on making personalized medicines at the point of care   The UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) seeking input on whether the production of personalized medicines at the point of care (POC) is sufficiently different from standard manufacturing to require the creation of a new framework.   In contrast to traditional medicine manufacturing, where fewer facilities, working at scale, manufacture products for global distrib...

The rapid expansion and evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) will challenge the current regulatory pharmaceutical and device, according to a new horizon-scanning report from an international consortium of regulators. The ad hoc group recommends a permanent working group to stay abreast of the regulation of AI in the development and assessment of medicinal products.   A 6 August report from the International Coalition of Medicines Regulatory Authorities (ICMRA) d...

In recent years, new cell and gene therapies have been developed and approved in a number of countries, including Japan. The Japanese government fully supports academia and the pharmaceutical industry in the research and development of these innovative therapies, and in 2019, revised the Act on Securing Quality, Efficacy, and Safety of Products Including Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices to enact the conditional early approval system for accelerating the development and ...