The guidance document allows patients over the age of 18 to get hearing aids without a medical evaluation. FDA also promised to work on developing a framework for over-the-counter hearing-aid sales. Both elements were included in a bill introduced in the Senate last week.
New immediately-in-effect guidance from US FDA would allow adults to buy hearing aids without a medical evaluation. And in conjunction with the guidance, FDA promised to consider creating a new regulatory category for over-the-counter hearing aids.
The draft guidance says FDA won’t enforce the requirement for a medical evaluation for patients over the age of 18....
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US FDA has greenlighted Senseonics’ Eversense 365 continuous glucose monitor, which must be replaced just once a year. Capable of being integrated with compatible insulin pumps as part of an automated insulin delivery system, the fully implantable device lasts 185 days longer than the Eversense E3 sensor and far outstrips competing CGMs, which last only for 10-14 days.
With the reversal of the Chevron doctrine in June, lower courts will now have more say in deciding regulatory statutes when the language is murky. But will that open the door to more legal challenges from the healthcare industry against government regulations it finds unfavorable? A pair of legal experts recently discussed the potential implications of the Court’s decision.
The US FDA released six more device classifications in early September, including products from Edwards, Interscope, and Baxter Healthcare.
This week, a Delaware court awarded Auris Health shareholders $1bn in a lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson; Abbott recalled some FreeStyle Libre 3 sensors; and McKesson purchased a controlling interest in a Florida cancer care chain.
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The Food and Drug Administration’s final guidance outlines the agency’s thinking for sponsors submitting de novo requests electronically, which they must starting in October 2025.
