BIO chief: FDA needs to create chief innovation officer position
To keep up with the rapidly changing pace of science and technology, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration needs to create the new position of chief innovation officer, says the CEO of the biotechnology industry s leading trade group. Adding the new position would help shape the FDA as not an application cop, but an agency that [...]

J&J Vaginal Mesh Approved by FDA Based on Similar Device Recalled in 1999
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) , the world s second-biggest health-care products maker, is battling lawsuits over a vaginal implant based on a similar device pulled from the market more than a decade ago for safety reasons.