Hip Resurfacing at Surface HippyPosted on by Patricia Walter
FDA to Stryker: Fix hip implant flawsLink to Original Article SNBC
By LINDA A. JOHNSON updated 5:48 p.m. ET, Wed., Jan. 16, 2008
TRENTON, N.J. – Federal regulators have
ordered medical device maker Stryker Corp. to fix a host of
long-standing problems in its manufacturing of hip
replacement parts that have triggered multiple patient
complaints and forced some to have follow-up surgeries.
Stryker shares fell almost 2 percent.
Hip Resurfacing at Surface HippyPosted on by Patricia Walter
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By Peter Buxbaum
Published on August 4, 2008
The Food and Drug Administration has proposed a
program that would query public and private databases to help study the efficacy
of orthopedic implants.
FDA will issue a request for quotations next month in an effort to identify
companies that could evaluate orthopedic implant registries for participation in
the program.
The program is part of the broader Sentinel Initiative FDA launched earlier this
year. The broader