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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can detect cancer in the second, or contralateral, breast in women with breast cancer, even when it is missed by mammography and clinical examination during the initial breast-cancer diagnosis, a study in the March 29 issue of the New England Journal of Medicince says.
Stents have not been successful enough in treating chronic total artery blockage, or chronic total occlusion (CTO), leaving room for new techniques and devices, a recent study says.
Wyeth will respond this month to Form 483 observations from an FDA reinspection of the company’s Guayama, Puerto Rico, manufacturing facility, the firm recently announced.
Omnicare has entered into a contract with Cardinal Health’s repackaging unit following the long-term care pharmacy’s closure of its Heartland operation, the companies recently announced.
Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, has recalled an estimated 200,000 units of anti-fungal Grifulvin V because of two reports that glass fragments were found in bottles of the oral suspension, the firm announced April 10.
The UK Department of Health (DoH) is urging all medical technology and medicines manufacturers to use the GS1 autoidentification and data capturing (AIDC) system for tracking products supplied to the English National Health System (NHS).
Development of unique device identification (UDI), similar to the bar codes on drugs and biological products, could vastly improve the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) ability to respond to adverse events and track recalls, Jeff Crowley, the FDA’s senior adviser for patient safety, said.