Not every electrical device can keep going and going. Take Medtronic’s SynchroMed II Implantable Drug Infusion Pump, for example. The batteries that power the implanted drug delivery device have been reported to fail, Medtronic announced Friday, though such occurrences are rare. The company said it first warned physicians of the battery problem in 2009. By the [...]

Medical device makers Medtronic Inc., Johnson & Johnson and Stryker Corp. face new safety rules under a revamped program laid out by U.S. regulators that may help speed approval of products from condoms to CT scanners. The Food and Drug Administration released the proposed new requirements for the so-called 510(k) program that covers products similar to previously approved devices, [...]

7/28/2010 SAN ANTONIO, July 27 /PRNewswire/ – AirStrip Technologies, a pioneer in mobile medical software applications, today announced that it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance to market the AirStrip Remote Patient Monitoring solution (RPM), including AirStrip RPM CRITICAL CARE and AirStrip RPM CARDIOLOGY. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100727/CG41710-a) (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20100727/CG41710-a) (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100727/CG41710-c) (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20100727/CG41710-c) (Photo: [...]