Flash: Senate passes FDA user fee bill with bipartisan blessing

Flash: Senate passes FDA user fee bill with bipartisan blessing-massdevice.com:


Members of Congress's upper house voted yesterday to pass a bill reauthorizing fees medical device and drug companies pay for FDA review.

MDUFMA: GOP hold-ups in Senate may push back FDA user fee vote, says Reid

MDUFMA: GOP hold-ups in Senate may push back FDA user fee vote, says Reid-massdevice.com:
A slew of Republican amendments to a bill reauthorizing the fees the FDA collects for reviewing medical devices and drugs threaten to forestall a vote on the Senate floor, according to Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.).

MDUFMA: Shuren, Burr renew hostilities over FDA's medical device reviews

MDUFMA: Shuren, Burr renew hostilities over FDA's medical device reviews-massdevice.com:

The FDA was back on Capitol Hill Thursday, selling the benefits of its $600 million promise to the medical device industry to get better, the same day that a GAO report called the watchdog agency out on being "inconsistent" in its reviews of complex medical devices.