MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Medtronic Inc. (NYSE: MDT), the leader in spinal cord stimulation for more than 25 years, today announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance and the ...
BOSTON — Pulling a medical device off the market is one thing. Removing it from the bodies of thousands of patients is a lot more complicated and dangerous. Consider the Sprint Fidelis, a heart ...
In 2007 Medtronic stopped selling the Sprint Fidelis, a heart defibrillator cable, after five patients who had the cables died. But only now is the full scope of the public health problem becoming ...