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While Apple’s request earlier this week for an interim stay of federal orders to stop selling its watches is hardly an emergency, according to Masimo, a federal court has agreed to Apple’s request and issued a temporary stay on the ban. Read More
As if lawsuits and plummeting stock prices from its faulty CPAP machines didn’t provide enough bad headlines, Philips now wants customers to pull the plug on one of its magnetic resonance imaging machines due to the potential for an explosion. Read More
The FDA has smacked Fresenius Kabi with a warning letter for selling adulterated devices that fail to conform to current good manufacturing practice (cGMP) requirements, following an inspection of the devicemaker’s Waltham, Mass., facility from June 26 to Aug. 2. Read More
A recently approved position paper from the European Association of Medical Devices Notified Bodies — referred to as Team-NB — addresses the question “What should ‘lifetime’ mean in guidelines when referring to the lifespan of medical devices?” Read More
In this edition of Quick Notes, we look at FDA breakthrough designation for a pulsed ablation system for treatment of atrial fibrillation, an implant to treat glaucoma and ocular hypertension, a label expansion for a game-based digital therapeutic device for adolescents with ADHD, and an antigen test to detect the presence of a cancer-causing bacteria. Read More
Olympus Corporation of the America’s recall of 17,691 bronchofiberscopes and bronchovideoscopes due to burn and fire hazards has been identified as a Class I recall. Read More