The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a Class I recall for over 380,000 saline flush syringes after discovering the syringes were possibly contaminated with a dangerous...
There is no shortage of dangerous medications on the market, but throughout 2016 it seems the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) worked hard to carefully scrutinize new drug...
Around this time last year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sent a warning to doctors and patients that a popular device called a duodenoscope was linked to...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration sent out a warning letter to hospitals and healthcare providers warning them of a potentially dangerous device: medical carts. Battery-powered medical carts are...
After stalling in the Senate for over a year, the 21st Century Cures Act was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Obama. The sweeping new legislation...
The FDA’s Office of Prescription Drug Promotion has been relatively quiet this year, but it appears the Agency is ending 2016 with a bang. The Office of Prescription Drug...
After Vincent Karst underwent open-heart surgery in early 2015, he seemed to recover well and his life slowly returned to normal. However, he slowly began to suffer from shortness...
Hospitals have a responsibility to report any adverse event related to medical devices to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), but a recent investigation found many hospitals are...
With the recent approval of Olympus America’s new power morcellator device, family members of those who have died from cancer spread by the devices struggle to understand how the...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is often criticized for stifling medical innovation, but a conference that took place earlier this week has some worried the federal agency...
