Public Workshop

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing a public workshop entitled “Standards Based Approach to Analytical Performance Evaluation of Next Generation Sequencing In Vitro Diagnostic Tests.” The purpose of this workshop is to obtain feedback on possible analytical standards and approaches to develop or build on existing standardization efforts in order to optimize FDA’s…

Public Workshop

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing a public workshop entitled: “Use of Databases for Establishing the Clinical Relevance of Human Genetic Variants”. The purpose of this workshop is to obtain feedback on ways in which FDA can use curated databases containing information about human genetic variation as sources of valid clinical evidence for…

FDA Voice blog – OpenFDA Makes Medical Device

By: Taha Kass-Hout, M.D., M.S., Roselie A. Bright, Sc.D., M.S., P.M.P. and Ann Ferriter Taha A. Kass-Hout, M.D., M.S., Chief Health Informatics Officer and Director of FDA’s Office of Health Informatics, Office of the Chief Scientist OpenFDA is releasing information on medical devices that could spur innovation and advance scientific research. OpenFDA’s Application Programming Interface…

Class I Medical Device Recall: Covidien, Puritan Bennett 980 Ventilators

Recall Class: Class I Date Recall Initiated: July 16, 2015 Device:  Puritan Bennett 980 Ventilator System Lot numbers: All lots with the products codes below are affected Manufactured from: March 2014 to June 2015 Distributed from: March 1, 2014 to June 17, 2015 Devices Recalled in the U.S.: 657 Product Codes: 980U1ENDIUU, 980U1ENDIUUS, 980U3ENDIUU, 980U3ENDIUUS,…