Medical Apps and FDA Regulation

Two recent articles – one in the Washington Post and one in the Wall Street Journal – have raised the spectre of how smartphone medical

From the IMDA Medtech Conference

New European medical device regulations are due within 18 months. The new rules will update the current Medical Device Directives (MDDs) for the 21st century,

FDA Forecast for 2012

Expecting something from the FDA is a risky endeavor, and that makes it all the more worthwhile to read the tea leaves every once in

From the PCP Council Science Symposium

Last week, I served as the keynote quality speaker at the international Personal Care Products Council’s 2011 Science Symposium in Newark, New Jersey. The turnout

Recent 21 CFR 11 FAQs

Since FDA announced its intent to vigorously enforce 21 CFR 11, I’ve collected various questions posed by attendees at my workshops and speeches on 21

Results from Annual FDA Supplier Conference

Supplier quality management is complicated enough.  Yet, too often, we shoot ourselves in the foot, making supplier qualification and oversight more complicated, more removed from

FDA Strengthens Global Supplier Oversight

FDA Commissioner Hamburg has created a new FDA enforcement directorate, the Office of Global Regulatory Operations and Policy, under Deb Autor.  The goal is to

Data Mining and FDA: What’s Missing?

The FDA recently awarded Johns Hopkins University a three-year contract to develop advanced analytical strategies to mine the data residing within multiple FDA databases.  The