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Recent legislation being considered by the Massachusetts legislature’s Joint Committee on Health Care Financing will make it more difficult for hospitals to use reprocessed medical devices, according to the Association of Medical Device Reprocessors (AMDR).
HHS’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) has entered into a settlement agreement and corporate integrity agreement (CIA) with Lincare Holdings and its subsidiary Lincare, the agency announced May 15.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit May 15 vacated a lower court ruling that U.S. Surgical did not infringe on a patent owned by Applied Medical, and sent the case back to the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California for review.
ECRI, a medical products testing organization, is suing Guidant in a Pennsylvania federal court over the company’s attempts to force it to quit publishing information about the prices hospitals pay Guidant for certain single-use medical devices.
In an anticipated move, Guidant sued Johnson & Johnson (J&J) last week to force the healthcare products giant to complete its planned purchase of Guidant -- a move that one financial analyst said is unlikely to succeed.
The FDA may issue a recall of older St. Jude Medical implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs), the company said after it reported background levels of radiation in the atmosphere might cause the devices to suddenly lose power.
A U.S. federal district court will begin hearing a dispute Sept. 26 that could set a national precedent for what device manufacturers must do to meet the FDA’s current good manufacturing practices.
Boston Scientific is currently in settlement talks with Israel-based stentmaker Medinol to resolve an ongoing lawsuit that has already been sent to trial.
European regulators have given medical devicemaker Medtronic CE mark approval to sell its Endeavor drug-eluting stent (DES) system in EU member countries. The device is designed to open patients’ clogged arteries during angioplasty procedures.