Dr. Wes

Robert Hauser, MD published a perspective piece in the New England Journal of Medicine today entitled "Here We Go Again — Another Fai...

From the Minneapolis Star Tribune : Researchers in Ireland have discovered a possible problem with a heart defibrillator component made by S...

From the FDA today : Bristol-Myers Squibb initiated a voluntary recall of one lot of 1,000-count bottles of Coumadin (warfarin sodium) Cryst...

St. Jude Medical announced they are withdrawing a portion of their thinner 7Fr Riata defibrillator lead line despite earlier glowing compa...

In an interesting twist to the ongoing saga of device recalls, the Minneapolis Startribune reported that the two doctors, Robert Hauser, MD...

Despite the excitement of the American College of Cardiology meeting in Atlanta, Boston Scientific issued a self-reported advisory about al...

Yesterday, I reported on this blog the trouble Medtronic had experienced with and earlier batch of defibrillators due to a low-voltage capa...

Today, Medtronic began notifying physicians and patients about a new advisory (pdf) on some of their Kappa and Sigma series of pacemakers m...

It was a routine pacemaker implant yesterday. No big deal, really. But there's always one point of a surgical procedure that grabs the d...

First it was digitek , then generic Toprol ER , now it's digoxin from Caraco Pharmaceuticals. Caraco Digoxin 0.125 mg is a scored round...

In anticipation of an upcoming New York Times article to run this weekend, I just received my 'dear doctor' letter from Medtronic ...

In February, 1996, the FDA issued this directive: "In keeping with its commitment to speed up patient access to new medical devices, ...

In October, 2007, Medtronic issued one of the largest defibrillator lead advisory alerts for their popular and thin Model 6949 Sprint Fideli...

As reported in the Star Tribune regarding the faulty implantable cardiac defibrillator (ICD) battery suit settled by Medtronic from the rec...

Sometime next week, we should be receiving software , called the "Lead Integrity Alert" that can be uploaded into existing Medtron...

It's now been six months since Medtronic's lead recall of their 7-French Model 6949 Sprint Fidelis defibrillator lead in October 20...

" Foxglove Season " (Digitalis purpurea) Heard about this from a patient tip after she had a problem getting a refill at the loca...

Mr. Smith, welcome back to the real world! Did you know that your heart stopped earlier today, but thanks to your friendly neighborhood para...

Thanks to the previous post's commenter who asked for a brief note regarding the recent Baxter pharmaceutical heparin recall . Today...

Two different recalls of heparin contamination were just released: One from Baxter Pharmaceuticals : ( WSJ ) The Deerfield, Ill., company be...