St. Jude Medical (NYSE:STJ) tried to distance its Durata defibrillator leads from their troubled Riata predecessor and unveiled the results of the decade-long SCD-HeFT heart failure study during separate presentations at this year’s Heart Rhythm Society meeting in Boston, Mass.
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DePuy’s BMJ fray: Is the hip maker showing its hand ahead of jury trials?
The quarrel between hip implant maker DePuy and researcher Deborah Cohen may be more than an academic altercation playing out in the pages of the esteemed British Medical Journal – it may be a preview of things to come.
MassDevice.com +3 | The top 3 med-tech stories for May 9, 2012.
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DePuy hip battle wages on in the pages of the British Medical Journal
While the DePuy ASR metal-on-metal hip recall has been playing out amid lawsuits and federal probes, another battle has been playing out on another, quieter front – the pages of the British Medical Journal.
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How does the FDA monitor your medical implants? It doesn’t, really
by Lena Groeger, ProPublica
Each prescription drug you take has a unique code that the government can use to track problems. But artificial hips and pacemakers? They are implanted without identification, along with many other medical devices. In fact, the FDA doesn’t know how many devices are implanted into patients each year – it simply doesn’t track that data.
MassDevice.com +3 | The top 3 med-tech stories for May 1, 2012.
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New Riata data from St. Jude shows increased lead problems
Medical device recalls for April 2012
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Medical device advisories: moving the needle
In 2005, a flurry of medical device recalls shook the implantable cardiac defibrillator market. The first of these recalls occurred after the former Guidant Corporation (just purchased by Boston Scientific) was forced to admit that a header malfunction of one of their Prism II ICDs had short-circuited and failed to deliver appropriate resuscitating shocks to several patients.
Four medical implants that escaped FDA scrutiny
by Lena Groeger, ProPublica