Deka R&D Corp. President Dean Kamen says 18 months is too long for “innovative technology” like the Deka LUKE prosthetic arm – an artificial limb with fingers sensitive enough to pick up and move an egg – to go through FDA’s approval process for devices. The arm was commercially launched by Mobius Bionics LLC on July 8, but was initially OK'd as a class II device via the de novo pathway in May 2014. (Also see "FDA Approves Advanced Prosthetic Arm" - Medtech Insight, 9 May, 2014.)
He said the advanced capabilities and urgent need for the prosthetic arm by soldiers returning from the battlefield and for veterans from older wars who have had to rely on...
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