Topic: Medical Technology
FDA panel backs Medtronic's MRI-safe pacemaker
AP Features
Federal health experts are recommending approval for a Medtronic pacemaker designed to be safely used with MRI scanners. Patients with the heart-pacing implants are generally discouraged from having MRI scans because the radio waves could interfere with the functioning of their device. Medtronic has asked the FDA to approve its ...
Summary Box: FDA to review already-OK'd device
AP News
Summary Box: FDA to review already-approved knee implant, but device maker fights backWHAT HAPPENED: In a rare move, the Food and Drug Administration has decided it will again review Menaflex, a knee implant it had approved in 2008. The agency plans to convene a panel of experts next week to ...
FDA prepares to reassess much-debated knee implant
AP News
Device maker Regen Biologic challenges FDA plan to reassess highly-contested knee implantA medical device company at the center of a highly controversial Food and Drug Administration approval is pushing back against the agency's plan to re-evaluate the implant. Regen Biologic's knee repair implant spent more than three contentious ...
Group warns of severe shortage of medical isotopes
Reuters US Online Report Health News
CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. imaging experts warned of significant disruptions in the supply of a medical isotope used in scores of diagnostic tests in the coming weeks as a key nuclear reactor goes out of service for extended repairs. The Society of Nuclear Imaging said on Thursday between March 21 ...
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