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NIH grants, overall funding attacked in GOP budget cuts. “For most of the past decade, Democrats and Republicans in Congress have competed over who could pour more money into the National Institutes of Health, the largest funder of biomedical research in the world. But the party is over. The budget cuts proposed by a leading House Republican this week included cancellation of the $1 billion that the Obama administration wanted to add to the $31 billion NIH budget.”
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Medical device software regulations to be relaxed, FDA decides. The Food & Drug Administration loosened regulations for certain hardware and software products for medical devices. The federal watchdog agency freed medical device data systems from pre-market review, ruling that they’re Class I, essentially “low-risk,” devices.
Medical device recalls come from devices through the 510(k) process. “Nearly three-quarters of medical device recalls that could have caused injury or death from 2005-2009 went through the 510(k) pre-market notification process at the Food & Drug Administration, according to a new report from the Archives of Internal Medicine.”
Medical device innovation: how to get ideas flowing. “These 10 resolutions are only the start to being a clinical innovator. Depending upon your motivations you may also want to prove the feasibility of your idea, determine the business case for your product, finance the development, and execute a marketing/sales strategy, to name a few non-trivial tasks.”
On Valentine’s Day, the heart keeps both its cultural and medical meaning. “Listening to NPR Saturday morning, I caught part of Scott Simon’s interview of brothers Stephen Amidon and Thomas Amidon, M.D. discussing their book The Sublime Engine: A Biography of the Human Heart. The interview touched on the story of the human heart in science/medicine, history, and culture.”