Israeli medical technology company Given Imaging has got green signal from U.S. Food and Drug Administration for a pill to provide visualization of the colon that has a global market of 3 million procedures a year. The FDA gave its clearance to the camera-in-a-pill maker for the pill called PillCam Colon,that can be used for detection of colon polyps in patients after an incomplete optical … [Read more...]
FDA has varied testing procedures for drugs approval
A new study has tried to bring some light on the drug testing procedures of U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). There is a huge misconception that FDA follows uniform testing procedures to test all the drugs and medical devices. But the new study has turned down this conception saying it has different parameters to check the worthiness of any drug. The researchers at the Yale University … [Read more...]