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FDA: Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Includes Ventilator Developed by NASA in Ventilator Emergency Use Authorization

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration included, under the ventilator emergency use authorization (EUA), a ventilator developed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which is tailored to treat patients with COVID-19.

SCIBASE: Receives FDA Approval for Nevisense 3.0

SciBase (SCIB) Stockholm, Sweden - announced today that it has received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Nevisense 3.0, the third generation of their Nevisense system for early melanoma detection.

ALUME BIOSCIENCES: US FDA Allows Trial to Proceed for Alume Biosciences' Nerve Imaging Candidate

Phase 1/2 Clinical Trial for ALM-488 to Highlight Nerves in Patients Undergoing Head & Neck Surgery Will Begin Enrollment at the University California San Diego (UCSD), Stanford and Harvard

FDA: Insight into FDA's Revised Policy on Antibody Tests: Prioritizing Access and Accuracy

By: Anand Shah, M.D., Deputy Commissioner for Medical and Scientific Affairs, FDA, and Jeff Shuren, M.D., Director, Center for Devices and Radiological Health

VITALCONNECT: FDA Grants Emergency Use Authorization to VitalConnect for Cardiac Monitoring in COVID-19 Patients

VitalPatch® wearable biosensor can monitor for heart-related side effects of Hydroxychloroquine and other COVID-19 treatments

BOX BIOSCIENCE: Works Overtime To Provide FDA Approved Sanitizer

BOX BioScience has formed a joint venture with Singlepoint (OTC: SING) to distribute hand sanitizer products manufactured out of Carlsbad, CA.

CONTROL MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY: FDA Clears New Mechanical Thrombectomy Platform

New large catheter platform FDA cleared to remove blood clots from peripheral vessels

SIMULATIONS PLUS: U.S. FDA Renews Annual DILIsym Software Licenses

DILIsym Services, Inc., a Simulations Plus company (Nasdaq: SLP) and a leading provider of simulation and modeling software for pharmaceutical safety and efficacy, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has again renewed its multi-seat license for the company’s leading quantitative systems toxicology (QST) modeling software, DILIsym®.

FDA: Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Continues to Combat Fraudulent COVID-19 Medical Products

U.S. Food and Drug Administration is providing an update on the agency’s efforts to combat the extremely concerning actions by companies and individuals that are exploiting or taking advantage of widespread fear among consumers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

OPTI MEDICAL SYSTEMS: Receives US FDA Emergency Use Authorization for Its OPTI SARS-CoV-2 RNA PCR Test Kit for Detection of the Virus Causing COVID-19

OPTI Medical Systems, Inc., a subsidiary of IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. (NASDAQ: IDXX), announced that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for the OPTI® SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR laboratory test kit for the detection of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

FDA: Approves First Therapy for Patients with Lung and Thyroid Cancers with a Certain Genetic Mutation or Fusion

U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Retevmo (selpercatinib) capsules to treat three types of tumors – non-small cell lung cancer, medullary thyroid cancer and other types of thyroid cancers – in patients whose tumors have an alteration (mutation or fusion) in a specific gene (RET or "rearranged during transfection"). Retevmo is the first therapy approved specifically for cancer patients with the RET gene alterations.

ABBOTT: Receives FDA Emergency Use Authorization for COVID-19 Antibody Blood Test on Alinity™ i System

Abbott announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for the company's SARS-CoV-2 IgG lab-based serology blood test on the Alinity™ i system.

FDA: Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA updates on surveillance inspections during COVID-19

During COVID-19, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will continue to utilize and implement additional alternative inspection tools and approaches while postponing domestic and foreign routine surveillance inspections.

TRANSIT SCIENTIFIC: FDA Clears New XO Cross Microcatheter Platform

New non-tapered metal-alloy catheter platform FDA cleared for use in peripheral vasculature

THERMO FISHER SCIENTIFIC: FDA Further Expands EUA for Thermo Fisher Scientific's COVID-19 Diagnostic Tests

Authorization brings more instruments on line, enables workflow flexibility and simplifies methods to increase throughput and allow more labs to run tests

OPTINA DIAGNOSTICS: Receives 510(k) clearance from U.S. FDA for its MHRC-C1, permitting hyperspectral imaging of the retina

Optina Diagnostics announces today that it received 510(k) clearance for its ophthalmic camera, the Mydriatic Hyperspectral Retinal Camera (MHRC-C1), by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

FDA: Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Informs Public About Possible Accuracy Concerns with Abbott ID NOW Point-of-Care Test

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is alerting the public to early data that suggest potential inaccurate results from using the Abbott ID NOW point-of-care test to diagnose COVID-19.

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