Computerized Medication Box Approved
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THURSDAY, June 21 (HealthDay News) -- A programmable device that allows professional caregivers to monitor how patients dispense their medications has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the agency said Thursday.
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Nov. 16, 2004âStarting this week, US pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma will begin adding an RFID label to every 100-tablet bottle of the company&#39;s popular OxyContin pain reliever tablets to be shipped to Wal-Mart and drug wholesaler HD Smith.
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People worried about sudden cardiac arrest no longer need a doctor's prescription to buy devices that jump-start the heart.     The Food and Drug Administration for the first time agreed Thursday to let consumers go online and purchase the $2,000 devices for home use...
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The medical device maker receives FDA clearance for new heart monitoring technology.
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today the approval of a temporary artificial heart for use in patients awaiting a heart transplant.
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Newest version of automated management programs ships Monday.
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Digital patient records could become building blocks in a nationwide biomedical computer network for assembling and distributing up-to-the-minute studies of disease.
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ARIZONA-MADE HEART: An experimental artificial heart that saved a Mesa teen&#39;s life won Food and Drug Administration approval Monday, making the technology available to others throughout the country.
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WEDNESDAY, June 27 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. hospitals that switched from using doctors&#39; handwritten prescriptions to computerized drug ordering systems had a 66 percent drop in medication errors, say the authors of a review that looked at the results of 12 studies.
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The CardioWest artificial heart, devloped by University Medical Center&#39;s artificial heart team and used in more than 300 patients worldwide, is the first ever to win approval from the US Food and Drug Administration.
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WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration has approved an implantable computer chip that can be inserted in patients to pass along their medical history to doctors.
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Oct. 24 - Israeli company InSightec has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has awarded pre-market approval to the company&#39;s ExAblate 2000 system for non-invasive surgery for symptomatic uterine fibroids.
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FDA advisory panel gives the nod to its heart drug.
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The Food and Drug Administration launched an effort this week to use radio frequency identification technology to track the nation&#39;s drug supply from manufacturer to pharmacy to reduce counterfeiting.
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The Food and Drug Administration approved the use of an artificial heart made by SynCardia Systems as a temporary device for people awaiting transplants.
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today cleared for marketing the first laboratory test system that will allow physicians to consider unique genetic information from patients in selecting medications and doses of medications for a wide variety of
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US regulators the Food and Drug Administration have released guidance for the attachment of RFID tags to drug packaging in order to &quot;insure that the drugs available in the United States are among the safest in the world.