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Update: 2012 Medical devices safety law pros and cons
Many of us like to think we could live forever. And with today’s technology, a medical device – hip replacement, heart valve, artificial knee – seems to put ‘forever’ a lot closer within reach.
Categories: Medical Device Safety, Medical Devices & Drugs
Tags: FDA, MDUFA, medical device
Medical devices will begin getting special codes to help improve patient safety
FDA is developing a system to identify each medical device with a special code to help notify patients of recalls and other problems under a new rule proposed by the FDA.
Categories: Medical Device Safety, Medical Devices & Drugs
Tags: FDA, MDUFA, medical device
Fact Sheet: Medical Device User Fee Amendments of 2012
List and brief description of medical device amendments contained in the FDA Safety and Innovation Act.
Categories: Medical Device Safety, Medical Devices & Drugs
Tags: external, FDA, MDUFA, medical device
FDA Proposes Unique Device Identification Regulations for Medical Device
New system could help consumers of implantable life-sustaining devices access recall and other safety information about their specific device with a unique identifier system.
Categories: Medical Device Safety, Medical Devices & Drugs
Tags: MDUFA, medical device, metal-on-metal hip implants
FDA user fee bill passes Senate, 92-4
Next stop-the President.
Categories: Medical Device Safety, Medical Devices & Drugs
Tags: FDA, MDUFA, medical device
Hip, Hip, Delay
Metal hip hearing comes after passage of the FDA user fee bill which fails to address inadequate safety testing crucial to safe hip implants.
Categories: Medical Device Safety, Medical Devices & Drugs
Tags: MDUFA, medical device, metal-on-metal hip implants
J&J Sold Vaginal Mesh Implant After Sales Halt Ordered
On June 5, J&J said it will stop selling four vaginal mesh implants including the Prolift in response to lawsuits. The company will not withdraw the Prolift before its “planned discontinuation” of the mesh products over the next three to nine months.
Categories: Medical Device Safety, Medical Devices & Drugs
Tags: MDUFA, medical device, mesh
House rushes through approval of new PDUFA legislation
Next stop-the Senate and then the President’s desk.
Categories: Medical Device Safety, Medical Devices & Drugs
Tags: legislation, MDUFA, medical device
#SPPChat: What Consumers Need to Know About Medical Device User Fee Bills
The intent of our Twitter chat on May 17 was to debunk industry claims about the FDA’s device approval process and explain what consumers really need to know about the medical device user fee bills.
Categories: Medical Device Safety, Medical Devices & Drugs
Tags: 510k, maude, MDUFA, meddevice, medicaldevices, pcori, ptsafety, s4pm, sppchat
Consumers demand safer medical devices
To make sure elected officials hear from Americans who’ve been harmed by outdated safety laws, Consumers Union’s Safe Patient Project brought 10 activists from seven states to Washington D.C. to share their medical device experiences and demand improvements. And it had a huge impact!
Categories: Medical Device Safety, Medical Devices & Drugs
Tags: MDUFA, medical device
