The UK government plans to cut the number of health-related agency bodies from 18 to between just eight and ten, as part of an exercise to streamline the organisations and deliver savings of over £180m (US$279 million) by 2014-15 1 ,2 . Its move ...
The Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration has been restructured in an effort to better support the delivery of appropriate, consistent, effective and efficient regulation 1 ,2 . This is the first comprehensive review of the agency that has ...
The UK health technology assessment body, NICE , has published the first draft guidance under its medical devices evaluation programme, which aims to accelerate the adoption of new technologies in the National Health Service 1,2 . The document, ...
UK health technology assessment body NICE has chosen the Electro-Optical System (EOS) Low Dose 2D/3D x-ray imaging system as the first technology to evaluate under its new diagnostics assessment programme 1 . The programme, announced late last ...
US medtech industry association AdvaMed has voiced concerns over the competitive acquisition programme initiated by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The association claims that the programme could limit the accessibility of products 1 ...
Medical technology firms in Germany see recent regulatory and political changes in their country as largely positive, with one or two exceptions. Tobias Weiler, head of the medical technology department of industry association Spectaris, tells ...
As doctors in the US brace themselves for the 30 million new patients that the new healthcare reform law promises to channel into the system, a key mechanism for advancing their medical knowledge and performance is facing tumultuous times. Certified ...
Singapore’s Health Sciences Authority has signed an agreement with its Korean counterpart on sharing information on the regulation of health products 1 . The memorandum of understanding between the HSA and the Korea Food and Drug Administration was ...
The US government has issued new regulations aimed at improving the protection of the genetic information of individuals undergoing genetic testing 1 ,2 . The regulations, issued on 1 October via an interim final rule, aim to help ensure that ...
