Existing emergency use authorizations to remain in effect and FDA may continue to issue new ones. Pfizer and Merck are moving to transition Paxlovid and Lagevrio to full approval as FDA allows prescribing without a positive COVID test first.

The annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference includes presentations from major medtech companies; Some use the conference as a platform for major announcements while some just take the opportunity to explain their 2023 outlook to investors. Here are some of the highlights from the presentations first day of the meeting.

Edwards Lifesciences CEO Mike Mussallem has a unique and long-standing perspective of what the medtech industry should be and do. In over two decades, he has built the structural heart disease and critical care monitoring company into one of the global medtech industry’s most effective innovators. That legacy is sure to last after his retirement as CEO in spring 2023.

Radiofrequencies from the incontinence-sensing devices may interfere with other medical equipment in a hospital setting.