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Saturday, May 25, 2013

iPhone urine analysis app may require FDA approval, says...



iPhone urine analysis app may require FDA approval, says agency
By Nathan Olivarez-Giles, theverge.com

In what may be a first for the Fed­er­al Drug Admin­is­tra­tion, the agency has sent a let­ter to the mak­ers of an iPhone med­ical app ask­ing why its approval wasn’t sought before release. The uChek app ana­lyzes pho­tos of urine sam­ples to giv…



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