Top US FDA device center officials Jeff Shuren and William Maisel said in a 15 April blog post that manufacturers should expect a delay in the review of new product submissions thanks to the pandemic. They noted that the agency also won’t be accepting certain IVD pre-submission requests until next year.

Prescience Point Capital is trying to reshuffle the board of directors leading regenerative medicine company MiMedx, arguing the company’s current board has destroyed shareholder value. The company's tock is selling for about a third of its potential value, according to Prescience.

Unilever’s Suave brand led new sanitizer product sales in 2020, when hand sanitizers total sales grew 569%, according to IRI. Sales of rinseable hand-soap sales grew 64% and antiseptics 19%.