A study reported that the conventional method of searching follicular fluid didn’t find all the eggs. The new technology found extra eggs more than half the time.
Category: Medical Devices
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New Method Can Find Hidden Eggs to Aid in Fertility Treatment
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F.D.A. Looks to A.I. to Enhance Efficiency
With a Trump-driven reduction of nearly 2,000 employees, agency officials view artificial intelligence as a way to speed drugs to the market.
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Trump’s Next Tariffs Target Could be Foreign-Made Pharmaceuticals
President Trump wants to bring pharmaceutical manufacturing back to the United States. Experts warn that tariffs could result in shortages and higher prices for generic drugs.
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FDA-Approved Artificial Blood Vessel Stirs Concerns
The F.D.A. approved an artificial vessel to restore blood flow in patients, despite its own scientists flagging questionable study results and potentially fatal ruptures of the product.
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For Patients Needing Transplants, Hope Arrives on Tiny Hooves
Some scientists are confident that organs from genetically modified pigs will one day be routinely transplanted into humans. But substantial ethical questions remain.
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FDA Staffed Up to Review AI and Food Safety. Those Hires Are Now Gone.
Teams evaluating high-tech surgical robots and insulin-delivery systems were gutted by Trump layoffs even though industry fees, not taxpayers, financed the employee salaries.
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ExThera Claimed Its Device Could Cure Cancer. But Patients Died.
Two U.S. companies teamed up to treat cancer patients using an unproven blood filter in Antigua, out of reach of American regulators.
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FDA Names a New Chief of Medical Devices
Patient advocates hope Dr. Michelle Tarver will lead the agency to focus more on safety and less on rapid approvals.
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Lawmakers Seek Inquiry Into F.D.A. Device Chief’s Potential Conflicts
A top medical device regulator’s work overlapped at times with his wife’s legal representation of clients with business before the agency.
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He Regulated Medical Devices. She Represented Their Makers.
Ethics rules barred Dr. Jeffrey E. Shuren from working on matters involving clients of his wife’s law firm. But he did not always step aside.