The latest drug development news and highlights from the Pink Sheet’s US FDA Performance Tracker.

Croma Pharma is a drug and device manufacturing company in its own right, but the firm now offers regulatory consultancy services in the medical device and combination products area to small companies. What does it take?

Selecting a notified body that has capacity, expertise and staying power is a challenge in itself. But when it comes to selecting a good one for drug/device combinations products, how should companies proceed? Croma Pharma executive Arkan Zwick offers his insight in this first part of a two-part Q&A. Check out the second part here.

The dealmaking column is a survey of recent transactions, including strategic alliances, mergers & acquisitions, and financings, in the life sciences industries. Deals are listed by the following industry sectors: in vitro diagnostics, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and research/analytical instrumentation and reagents. All transactions are excerpted from Elsevier's Strategic Transactions database, providing comprehensive transaction coverage from 1991 to the present.