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FDA heart pump recall after link to deaths and injuries
A pair of heart devices linked to hundreds of injuries and at least 14 deaths has received the FDA’s most serious recall, the agency announced...
FDA flags heart pump linked to 49 deaths
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued its highest-level alert about a heart pump that has been linked to 49 deaths and...
Donor liver protects heart transplant in US dual organ surgery
In a historic surgical procedure, an American patient received two donor organs, a liver and a heart, to prevent the extreme likelihood that her...
Next generation cardiac pump improves outcomes, cuts costs
In a presentation at the annual meeting of the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology, investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital...
Experts differ on when to declare a patient dead
Debate is simmering over the Uniform Determination of Death Act – a law adopted by most US states in the 1980s saying death can be...
Deaths and lawsuits expose flaws in FDA’s medical device oversight
A slew of lawsuits in the US – resulting from patients’ deaths – has highlighted the potential risks of various medical devices, most of...
US emergency departments are being overwhelmed but not by Covid
Even in parts of the United States where COVID-19 isn't overwhelming the health system, patients are showing up to Emergency Rooms (ER) sicker than...
COVID1-9 pandemic is the deadliest event in US history
The COVID-19 pandemic is the deadliest event in American history, with its death toll of 703,000 people surpassing that of the Civil War (620,000)...
Doctors in a dilemma as FDA’’s calls a halt to popular LVAD device
Following a finding by the US Food & Drug Administration, Medtronic is halting the global distribution of Medtronic’s HeartWare system following observational evidence associating...
Use of clot-busting tPA on COVID-19 patients in acute respiratory distress
The woman was dying. New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital was about to call her husband and break the news that there was nothing left...