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...
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...
Translation errors in the original recruitment advertisement for a new executive director of the European Medicines Agency mean the post will have to be re-advertised. This could happen as early as...
The Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society has entered into an agreement with China’s University of Shanghai for Science and Technology (USST) to work collaboratively on developing course content...
US President Barack Obama has nominated Donald Berwick , an advocate for improving the delivery of healthcare services and patient care, as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...
A picture of the new people the European Commission has put in charge of the future development of medical device regulation in Europe has emerged. The responsibility for the oversight of the...
It was with mixed feelings that the medical devices industry in the US greeted the passage of legislation on Sunday night (21 March) that would effectively give nearly all Americans health insurance...
Germany, as tradition dictates every two years, is once again awash with the excitement of a looming healthcare reform. In fact, the recently constituted government committee to reform the health...
President Barack Obama has requested over $4 billion in funds for the US Food and Drug Administration’s fiscal year 2011 budget 1 ,2 . The request represents a 23% increase over the FY 2010 budget,...
The US Food and Drug Administration has requested funds totalling over $4 billion for fiscal year 2011 1 ,2 . The request represents a 23% increase over the FY 2010 budget, when the FDA received...
The European Parliament has decided to postpone its vote on the new European Commission after Bulgaria’s nominee for the new European Commission, Rumiana Jeleva, withdrew her candidacy. The move will...
China’s top medical device official, Wang Baoting, is the new chairman of the Asian Harmonization Working Party . Mr Baoting, the director-general of the department of medical devices at the State...
The Department of Health in the UK is reviewing the performance of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency over the past five years to determine the degree to which the agency is...
The US Food and Drug Administration has set up its first Latin American office - in Costa Rica - to better regulate health and food products being imported from the region 1 . There are plans to set...
The Japanese government has approved an action plan that aims to bring new medical devices onto the market faster, according to an announcement by US medtech industry association AdvaMed 1 ,2 . The...
