FDA Clears Verizon Mobile Health Platform for Apple iOS; Julie Kling Comments
Verizon has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to run the company’s remote health-monitoring technology on the iOS mobile operating system run by Apple devices such as...
View ArticleSiemens Mobile C-Arm Gets FDA Clearance; Laurie Fisher Comments
Siemens‘ healthcare unit has received clearance from the Food and Drug Administration for the company’s mobile C-arm system, which is built with features designed to aid surgical teams during...
View ArticleNIH Allergy Institute Taps Emergent BioSolutions for Anthrax Vaccine Dry...
Emergent BioSolutions has landed a five-year, $29 million contract with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to make a dry formulation of the NuThrax anthrax vaccine candidate in...
View ArticleMarty Toomajian: Battelle, ExThera Partner to Develop Sepsis Treatment Device
Battelle, ExThera Medical and NxStage Medical have collaborated to develop a medical device for treating sepsis under a contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Battelle will work...
View ArticleFDA Seeks Small Business Sources for Safety Reporting Portal Services
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is conducting market research on the availability of potential sources of operations, maintenance, development modernization and enhancement services for the...
View ArticleHHS R&D Arm, AstraZeneca Form Antibiotic Development Partnership; Robin...
AstraZeneca and the Department of Health and Human Services have signed a partnership agreement on the development of antibiotics for drug-resistant infections and potential bioterrorism threats. HHS...
View ArticleSRI Awarded National Cancer Institute Drug Support Contract; Toufan Parman...
SRI International will provide preclinical treatment development support for the National Cancer Institute’s Prevent Cancer Drug Development Program under a potential $9 million contract. NCI’s Prevent...
View ArticleSalient CRGT to Operate Center for Veterinary Medicine Systems; Tom Ferrando...
Salient CRGT Inc. has received a three-year, $15 million task order through its Guident subsidiary to operate and maintain the applications of the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Veterinary...
View ArticleFDA OKs Siemens Twin Robotic X-Ray System; Martin Silverman Comments
Siemens‘ healthcare unit has received clearance from the Food and Drug Administration for the company’s twin robotic X-ray system. The Multitom Robotic Advanced X-ray platform is designed to generate...
View ArticleCommonwealth Informatics, FDA Forge Clinical Data Analytics Agreement;...
Commonwealth Informatics and the Food and Drug Administration have forged a two-year agreement to utilize the Commonwealth Clinical Data Analytics platform designed to help FDA assess drug safety data....
View ArticleDoD Adopts Mediware-Built Blood Donation Mgmt Software
The Defense Department has installed a Mediware Information Systems-designed blood establishment computer software the military now uses at more than 20 treatment facilities worldwide. DoD will use...
View ArticleHumanTouch to Support CDC, FDA Through New Atlanta Office
HumanTouch has established an office in Atlanta, Georgia to provide help desk and information technology support services to the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and...
View ArticleNIST, Stanford University Enter Partnership to Foster Biotech Measurement...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology will collaborate with Stanford University to develop measurement units for biotechnology products and services in sectors such as healthcare, energy...
View ArticleFDA OKs Emergency Use of Hologic’s Zika Virus Diagnostic Tool
Massachusetts-based medical technology developer Hologic has received emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration for a device the company developed to help clinicians detect Zika...
View ArticleFDA Seeks Info on COTS Quality Management Software Sources
The Food and Drug Administration has sought information on potential industry sources that can provide a commercial off-the-shelf software platform designed to help FDA compile audits and assessments...
View ArticleFDA Grants Emergency Use Authorization for Siemens Zika Virus Detection Tech
The Food and Drug Administration has granted an emergency use authorization to a Siemens subsidiary for an assay kit built to detect the presence of the mosquito-borne Zika virus in patients. PCR Zika...
View ArticleInBios Receives HHS Funds for Zika Diagnostic Test Development; Nicole Lurie...
InBios International has received a two-year, $5.1 million contract from the Department of Health and Human Services to further develop a blood screening technology intended to identify people infected...
View ArticleHologic Lands HHS Contract to Develop Zika Virus Blood Supply Screening Tool
Hologic has received a one-year, $4.1 million contract from the Department of Health and Human Services to further develop a test that works to detect Zika virus in donated blood. The company’s...
View ArticleMellingMedical Offers Kerecis Fish Skin Wound Treatment Product Via Federal...
MellingMedical will offer Kerecis‘ fish-skin-based wound treatment product to the Department of Veterans Affairs through the Federal Supply Schedule contract vehicle. The Kerecis Omega3 Wound product...
View ArticleOraSure Awarded HHS Contract for Zika Diagnostic Test Development
The Department of Health and Human Services has awarded a potential $16.6 million contract to Orasure Technologies to develop a Zika virus test that will work to show results within 30 minutes and can...
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