By Christopher Cheney, HealthLeaders Media, October 08, 2019. Surgical staplers are the top medical technology hazard for 2020, according to the ECRI Institute. Twenty years after publication of the Institute of Medicine’s landmark report To… Read More
WASHINGTON (AP) Nov. 5, 2019— In an Oct. 25 story about medical devices, The Associated Press reported on the closure of several facilities that use a carcinogenic gas to sterilize medical equipment, including a Georgia… Read More
By Victoria Knight, Kaiser Health News, Oct. 9, 2019. Dean Ernest had been living in a nursing home about a year when his son, John, got a call last winter asking if his father was… Read More
By Bram Sable-Smith, NPR Shots, Sep 19, 2019. In the first three months after getting his Dexcom continuous glucose monitor, Ric Peralta managed to reduce his average blood sugar level by three percentage points. “It took… Read More
By Roni Caryn Rabin, The New York Times, Aug. 29, 2019. Companies that make reusable, snakelike cameras to examine patients internally should begin making disposable versions, because the current models cannot be properly sterilized and… Read More
By Holbrook Mohr And Mitch Weiss, Medical Press. This Nov. 14, 2018 photo taken in Jackson, Miss., shows the Medtronic Paradigm REAL-Time Revel insulin pump of Polly Varnado’s daughter. Medical device manufacturers and experts say… Read More
By Denise Grady, The New York Times, July 24, 2019. Textured breast implants made by Allergan that have been linked to an unusual cancer are being recalled in the United States at the request of… Read More
By Christina Jewett, for Kaiser Health News. Faced with the possibility that a bout of abnormal heartbeats could end his life, in 2006, Dr. Marc Sicklick had a small device implanted in his chest that… Read More
By Christina Jewett, Kaiser Health News. Ed. – FDA scientists who speak up about patient safety concerns have been fired in retaliation, according to a Congressional investigation. The Food and Drug Administration has let medical… Read More
By Laurie McGinley, The Washington Post. The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday ordered manufacturers of surgical mesh used for repairing a condition called pelvic organ prolapse to immediately stop selling their products, the latest turn in… Read More