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The Australian Health Insurance Association (AHIA) Oct. 16 called for the implementation of government-funded national cardiac, spinal and lens registries after further information came to light about joint replacement surgery and prosthetics in an article published by the National Joint Replacement Registry.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) Oct. 16 charged former FDA Commissioner Lester Crawford with fraud for allegedly lying to HHS about his continued ownership of stocks in companies that the agency regulates.
Devicemakers can help ensure smoother FDA inspections of their facilities by improving their communication with inspectors and making sure their regulatory affairs personnel fully understand the quality system regulation, experts say.
Monday, Natus Medical Inc., developer of products for tracking and treatment of disorders in babies, said that it has agreed to acquire privately held Olympic Medical Corp. for $19.3 million in cash.
St. Jude Medical, Inc. announced that it has developed a software upgrade that fully remedies a low-frequency anomaly in the software used in the APS III Model 3510 and Merlin PCS Model 3650 programmers.
For patients with acute respiratory failure, a computer-driven system can significantly reduce the duration of mechanical ventilation and length of stay in the intensive care unit (ICU), as compared with the traditional physician-controlled weaning process.
Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems, Inc. (Cyberkinetics) announced that John P. Donoghue, Ph.D., Cyberkinetics' Chief Scientific Officer, presented preliminary findings from three participants in Cyberkinetics' pilot trial of the BrainGate Neural Interface System (BrainGate) at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Atlanta, Georgia.
Patients with implanted cardiac devices and their physicians sometimes defer important electrodiagnostic testing because of anxiety about potential negative effects the testing may have on the device.