The special controls are to include biocompatibility, sterility and performance testing, as well as physician training and warning labels.

The US FDA is updating its labeling guidance on laparoscopic power morcellation to reflect new evidence showing the treatment may pose a higher cancer risk in older women, as well as to add discussion of containment systems.

A sortable and searchable table of de novo classification decisions in calendar year 2016, updated monthly. Latest update: decisions through April 30.

The skill sets of laparoscopy, endoscopy, robotics and even interventional cardiology are all converging to create least invasive surgeries that take laparoscopy as a point of departure but change how surgeons access the abdominal cavity. Start-ups are innovating to supply the new surgical instruments.