CDRH’s new development initiative — Total Product Life Cycle Advisory Program (TAP) — taps into an FDA goal: to ensure U.S. patients are first to benefit from innovative medical devices that, while developed quickly, are of high quality, safe and proven effective, and that include input from patients, providers and payers early in the process. Read More

An artificial intelligence platform can discern epileptic seizure patterns on electroencephalogram as well as an expert epileptologist, with nearly 100 percent accuracy, a finding that could extend expert diagnoses to clinics without access to specialists in epilepsy, according to a report in JAMA Neurology. Read More

The FDA and the Medical Device Innovation Consortium (MDIC) are collaborating to offer funding of up to $300,000 to medical devicemakers that use advanced technologies to enhance product quality or improve the manufacturing process. Read More

Scientists have long been perceived and portrayed in film as old people in white lab coats perched at a bench full of bubbling fluorescent liquids. The present-day reality is quite different. Scientists are increasingly data jockeys in hoodies sitting before monitors analyzing enormous amounts of data. Modern day labs are more likely composed of sterile rows of robots doing the manual handling of materials, and lab notebooks are now electronic in massive data centers holding vast quantities of information. Today, scientific input comes from data pulled from the cloud, with algorithms fueling scientific discovery the way bunsen burners once did. Read More

A medical school research team and a digital therapeutics firm in South Korea used deep learning (DL) models to detect and assess autism in videos of children as young as 24 months of age by measuring a set of behaviors called “joint attention.” Read More

A five-year study of patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) revealed no notable difference in long-term clinical outcomes between those treated with titanium-nitride-oxide (TiNO)-coated stents or everolimus drug eluting stents (EES), both of which are used to widen narrow or blocked coronary arteries. Read More

Clinical trial sites venturing into the growing field of digital therapeutics (DTx) need the appropriate infrastructure — as well as tech know-how and adaptability — while sponsors need to be willing to offer training and support, iron out hurdles that come with remote components and simplify these trials whenever possible, a clinical research expert advises. Read More

The Veteran’s Health Administration (VHA), working with the FDA and several other agencies, has launched a challenge for the scientific and data analytics communities to develop AI and machine learning (ML) models to predict cardiovascular health outcomes, including readmission and mortality. Read More