November 24, 2012 ~ Most readers of Mesh Medical Device News Desk are familiar with the ease with which surgical mesh and other medical devices make it to the market. An exchange of paperwork and a claim of ‘substantial equivalence’ to another device already being sold, and a manufacturer can launch his product- even a
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April 1, 2012 ~ The May issue of Consumer Reports (here) features an investigation into synthetic mesh and artificial hips – medical devices that escape rigorous testing to assure safety. Tens of millions of Americans are living with medical devices and whether a defibrillator, artificial hip or surgical mesh, – 90 percent of those devices
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January 19, 2012 ~ In a letter to the Editor of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), (here) January 19, 2012, Neil Feder, M.D. of the Project on Government Oversight writes about the 510(k) process that allows untested medical devices onto the market without premarket approval. Share this:
OCTOBER 12, 2011 – MassDevice (here) reports on the firing of Dr. Nalini Rajamannan, an associate professor of medicine at Northwestern University, who blew the whistle on a fellow physician for failing to obtain consent from patients before implanting an experimental medical device he invented. Share this:
OCTOBER 3, 2011 - How to speed up the approval of a medical device that cannot claim it is substantially similar to one already on the market under 510(k)? On Friday, September 30, the Food and Drug Administration released a long-awaited proposed revision to the 510(k) clearance process that could speed up product reviews by
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