FDA Launches Medical Device Tracking System
Medical Device Tracking System Now Being Made. Nearly three years ago, Congress called for medical devices to be marked and tracked with unique identifiers and data on the tracked devices is now being made available to the public. Recently, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched the online Global Unique Device … [Read more...] about FDA Launches Medical Device Tracking System
System for Tracking Prescription Drug Side Effects
Flaws in System for Tracking Prescription Drug. The Institute for Safe Medication Practices, a nonprofit that focuses on drug safety issues, reports that the main system for tracking dangerous side effects of prescription drugs is seriously flawed because drug makers are submitting incomplete information about problems to … [Read more...] about System for Tracking Prescription Drug Side Effects
Dennis Quaid Tours Dallas Hospital
Quaid Looks At Heparin Tracking System. Actor Dennis Quaid toured a Dallas hospital on Tuesday to learn about a system to prevent the types of errors his family experienced when his newborn twins were accidentally given a massive overdose of the blood thinner Heparin. According to an Associated Press (AP) report, officials at … [Read more...] about Dennis Quaid Tours Dallas Hospital
