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Lawsuits Allege Medtronic, Other Firms Illegally Marketed Surgical Ablation Products
Jul 16, 2009 | Parker Waichman Alonso LLP
Medtronic Inc., St. Jude Medical Inc., AtriCure Inc. and Boston Scientific Corp. all allegedly paid kickbacks to doctors in order to convince them to...
St. Jude Served with FDA Warning Letter
Apr 23, 2009 | Parker Waichman Alonso LLP
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sent a warning letter this week to St. Jude Medical Inc. because of faulty manufacturing practices at its...
Doctor Criticizes Test Guidelines for New Defibrillator
Dec 11, 2008 | Parker Waichman Alonso LLP
Dr. Robert Hauser of the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation has said in today’s New England Journal of Medicine that he is not confident in...
Pacemakers Vulnerable to Hackers, Researchers Say
May 29, 2008 | Parker Waichman Alonso LLP
Pacemakers can be hacked - relatively easily. Now a research team that was able to hack the implantable defibrillators that keep sick hearts...
Heart Device Patients Often Unaware of Recalls
May 16, 2008 | Parker Waichman Alonso LLP
It seems that many patients who have been implanted with heart devices are not aware of recent recalls and do not understand the dangers they might...
Medtronic Sprint Fidelis, St. Jude Riata Defibrillator Lead Wires Endanger Patients
Nov 19, 2007 | Parker Waichman Alonso LLP
People with a Medtronic or St. Jude implantable defibrillators should know that some of these defibrillators’ lead...
St. Jude Defends Riata Defibrillator Lead, But Expert Skeptical
Nov 13, 2007 | Parker Waichman Alonso LLP
St. Jude Medical Inc. is trying to undo the damage caused by reports that its Riata Defibrillator Lead wires have perforated the hearts of some...
St. Jude Riata Defibrillator Lead Wires Perforating Patients' Hearts
Nov 12, 2007 | Parker Waichman Alonso LLP
St. Jude Riata Defibrillator Lead wires have been detaching from patients’ hearts and perforating the heart wall, according to reports...
Health Canada Endorsed Important Safety information on certain St. Jude Medical implantable cardiac defibrillators
Nov 6, 2005 | Health Canada
Dear Doctor:This letter is written to provide you with important safety information regarding a memory chip component supplied to us and used in a...
Feds Probing Heart Device Firms
Oct 26, 2005 | www.twincities.com
The Justice Department has started a broad investigation into whether makers of implantable heart devices have offered payments or other inducements...
St. Jude Defibrillators
