Schmidt Group Updates | March 2024

February MedTech Wrap-Up

Medtech layoffs continue in 2024
Executive is convicted of insider trading related to medical device firm acquisition
Hacker forum post claims UnitedHealth paid $22 mln ransom in bid to recover data
Karuna shareholder sues biotech, CEO Bill Meury over $14B BMS merger
The tide is turning on healthcare megamergers
Justice Department, Federal Trade Commission and Department of Health and Human Services Issue Request for Public Input as Part of Inquiry into Impacts of Corporate Ownership Trend in Health Care
Man files wrongful death suit against Intuitive, says da Vinci robot burned hole in wife's intestine
U.S. Opens UnitedHealth Antitrust Probe

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UK’s MHRA Webinar on The New Regulatory Framework:

05 March 2024

This morning (05 March 2024) the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) presented the first in a series of webinars that they are billing as “Med Tech Regulatory Reform: The first steps towards a new framework for medical devices in the UK”.

This online session sought to provide insight into the scope of future new legislation in the UK, the proposed changes to the classification system, and the move from Essential Requirements to General Safety and Performance Requirements. If this is sounding anything like the EU MDR or EU IVDR then you have already got the main message from today’s event: the UK will follow the EU regulations and IMDRF.

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Red kidney beans are as ubiquitous a symbol of New Orleans as the fleur-de-lis, a rite as common as Carnival. The city’s culinary connection to the lowly red bean is mighty, stretching over centuries, across distant cultures and peoples around the globe. The bean is so symbolic of the city that a newcomer, or culinary dilettante, could be fooled into thinking that the red kidney bean was native to Louisiana, which it is not.

No one knows for sure why and how New Orleanians began to eat red beans and rice, though it’s believed to have traveled over with exiles from the French Caribbean. “Red beans are to New Orleans what the white bean is to Boston and the cowpea is to South Carolina,” reporters for the Federal Writers Project wrote in 1938.

Monday is the day most often associated with the dish because the first day of the week was washing day, and the woman responsible for providing a household with a clean set of clothes was also obligated to feed the household that evening. Cleaning and cooking left little time and attention for both, so a pot of red beans was left on the stove, simmering throughout the day. Restaurants all across the south continue to offer red beans and rice as a Monday special.

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Ingredients:

1 tablespoon shortening, or as needed
1 white onion, chopped
1 green bell pepper, chopped
3 cloves garlic, chopped
8 cups water
1 pound dried red beans
1 smoked ham hock
1 pound smoked sausage, cut into bite-sized pieces

2 stalks celery, chopped
2 bay leaves
1 tablespoon Creole seasoning (such as Tony Chachere's®)
½ teaspoon dried thyme
½ teaspoon dried sage
1 dash hot pepper sauce (such as Tabasco®), or to taste (Optional)
3 cups cooked white rice

Instructions:

Melt shortening in a skillet over medium heat. Cook and stir onion, bell pepper, and garlic in hot shortening until tender, 5 to 7 minutes.

Combine water, red beans, and ham hock in a large pot; bring to a boil. Stir onion mixture into the pot; add smoked sausage and celery. Return to a boil. Stir bay leaves, Creole seasoning, thyme, and sage into boiling water. Reduce heat to low, cover the pot, and simmer until beans are tender, about 5 hours.

Remove and discard ham hock and bay leaves; stir in hot pepper sauce and serve over white rice.

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