Posted by Admin | 1:37 PM

Here we go again.  After a hiatus during which the US media and perhaps parts of the government were preoccupied with such issues as the on...

Labels: BMP-2, Boston Scientific, Guidant, ICD, impunity, legal settlements, medical devices, Stryker

Posted by Admin | 11:40 AM

The case of the over-marketing of Kyphon's kyphoplasty device (look here ) just got more complicated, and now appears to have involved a...

Labels: HCA, impunity, Kyphon, legal settlements, medical devices, Medtronic, mergers

Posted by Admin | 10:15 AM

As if there weren't enough problems with hospitals as computing backwaters, now there's this: Computer Viruses Are "Rampant...

Labels: computer security, computer virus, healthcare IT dangers, malware, medical devices, medical record confidentiality, medical record privacy

Posted by Admin | 11:45 AM

Suppression of data about defects in and failures of implantable cardiac defibrillators (ICDs) was one of the big issues we featured in the ...

Labels: adverse effects, defective devices, ICD, medical devices, secrecy, St Jude Medical, suppression of medical research

Posted by Admin | 6:09 PM

At " FDA: Software Failures Responsible for 24% Of All Medical Device Recalls " via Kapersky Labs, a software security company, it...

Labels: FDA, FDA Office of Science and Engineering Laboratories, healthcare IT dangers, medical devices, sale of known defective software, software glitch

Posted by Admin | 2:25 PM

Health care organizations are now most often run by people with management, not clinical backgrounds.  It seems like business schools have t...

Labels: Duke University, generic management, generic managers, health care prices, managers' coup d'etat, marketing, medical devices, SSM Health Care, Tenet, University of Chicago

Posted by Admin | 11:40 AM

And the march of legal settlements continues... Circling around the block and coming in front of the viewing stand again is device manufact...

Labels: conflicts of interest, ICD, impunity, kickbacks, legal settlements, medical devices, Medtronic