The Wall Street Journal, October 17, 2014. In a setback for Pfizer, an FDA advisory panel yesterday voted overwhelmingly to maintain the most serious warnings on its Chantix smoking cessation pill.
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Is Early Stage Medical Device Development Going Overseas?
Wolters Kluwer Law & Health Blog, October 15, 2014. Even though the FDA has recently proposed a new program to provide earlier market access to high-risk medical devices, FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg nevertheless came under fire for the agency being too slow to approve medical devices at the annual conference of the Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed) in Chicago.
Read More »Safety Advocates Seek Stronger Warnings On Chantix
Associated Press, October 8, 2014. Public safety advocates are asking the federal government to strengthen warnings on Pfizer’s anti-smoking drug Chantix, even as the drug maker prepares to argue that a bold-letter warning about psychiatric problems should be removed from the medicine’s label.
Read More »Health Officials Tell Medical Technology Group To ‘Prove It’
Modern Healthcare, October 8, 2014. “The thing that’s been missing from the model until now is the evidence,” said Diana Zuckerman, a researcher who has been critical of the Food and Drug Administration’s procedures for approving and monitoring medical devices.
Read More »Payment Reform Puts Medical-Device Industry On the Defensive
Modern Healthcare, October 7, 2014. Medical technology companies are warning that burgeoning pay-for-performance and risk-based reimbursement models will motivate providers to block access to clinically important innovations.
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