Industry groups are responding to the FDA’s proposal to publicly release emerging safety signals before substantiation after the agency released draft guidance explaining its plans to track and release early medical device safety signals back in January. The agency said it plans to release data related to medical devices used in clinical practices that the FDA […]
Medical Device Manufacturers Assn. (MDMA)
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Medical device lobbies tap new government affairs execs
The Medical Device Manufacturers Assn. and the Medical Imaging Technology Alliance tapped a pair of Capitol Hill veterans to lead their government affairs departments.
Clayton Hall, a former chief of staff for 3 representatives with 12 years on The Hill, was named vice president of government affairs at MDMA, the association said.
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Medical device tax repeal bill gains enough co-sponsors to pass House
Representatives in the U.S. House are set to repeat their vote to repeal the medical device tax, now that a bill to do away with the 2.3% sales levy has enough legislators behind it to ensure passage in the lower chamber.
The "Protect Medical Innovation Act of 2013," co-sponsored by Reps. Erik Paulsen (R-Minn.) and Ron Kind (D-Wis.), garnered 218 signatures from the duo’s House colleagues. The measure would repeal the medical device tax, retroactive to Dec. 31, 2012. It’s slated for an airing before the House Way’s & Means Committee this year.
Medical device lobbying chiefs rally in defense of medtech tax repeal
Leaders of medical device lobbying groups joined forces this week to refute a New York Times editorial painting recent successes in the effort to repeal the device tax as "one industry’s hold on the Senate."