News and Notes

FKA Brands, parent company to HoMedics, has joined the effort to make supplies available during the coronavirus crisis. The manufacturer of personal health and wellness products for more than 30 years has converted production lines to produce masks and other personal...

Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an immediately in effect guidance to help expand the availability of surgical apparel for health care professionals, including gowns (togas), hoods, and surgeon’s and patient examination gloves during this...

Battelle announced that it has begun rapid manufacturing of a system to decontaminate N95 respirator masks and other medical protective equipment. Each Battelle CCDS Critical Care Decontamination System is capable of decontaminating up to 80,000 masks per day at full...

Sunday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an immediately in effect guidance that outlines an enforcement policy to help expand the availability and capability of sterilizers, disinfectant devices and air purifiers. The devices include those intended...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration took action to help increase the supply of ventilators, ventilator tubing connectors, and ventilator accessories, as well as filtering facepiece respirators (FFRs) due to shortages during COVID-19, as part of our commitment to...

As the COVID-19 virus is fast spreading throughout the US, the search for faster and more efficient solutions to help its victims is more important than ever. Most recently, more than 38,000 people have tested positive in the states of New York, New Jersey and...