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Consumer Updates: Medical Devices
Consumer Updates are timely articles that cover product approvals, safety warnings, and other health information for you and your family. You can sign up to receive e-mail alerts about new articles immediately after they are posted on FDA's Web site, or on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. You can also sign up for an RSS feed. Some of these articles are available in Spanish.
Consumer Updates related to medical devices are featured on this page. Medical devices range from surgical sutures and contact lenses to blood glucose monitors and pacemakers. Regulating medical devices—from evaluating them for safety and effectiveness before they are marketed, to ensuring their continued safety and effectiveness throughout their lifetime of use—is the responsibility of FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH).
Medical Devices
- FDA's MedWatch Safety Alerts: August 2009
- Illuminating the Hazards of Powerful Laser Products
- Ensuring Safe Use of Contact Lens Solution
- Patients Alerted to Pacemaker Recall
- Practice Hospital Bed Safety
- FDA's MedWatch Safety Alerts: June 2009
- FDA Promotes Openness and Transparency to Public
- La FDA promueve la apertura y la transparencia hacia el público
- H1N1 Flu: FDA Responds Quickly to Protect the Public's Health
- FDA 101: Clinical Trials and Institutional Review Boards
- Insulin Pens are Not for Sharing
- FDA's MedWatch Safety Alerts: March 2009
- Your Guide to Reporting Problems to FDA
- FDA 101: How to Use the Consumer Complaint System and MedWatch
- Should Your Child Be in a Clinical Trial?
- Food Allergies: Reducing the Risks
- FDA and WebMD Form Partnership
- Focusing on Contact Lens Safety
- FDA 101: Product Recalls - From First Alert to Effectiveness Checks
- Improper Use of Decorative Contacts May Haunt You
- Is It Really FDA Approved?
- "In-Body" Pediatric Devices Pose Unique Challenges
- Sun Safety: Save Your Skin!
- New Steps to Improve Advisory Committee Processes
- Strengthening the Advisory Committee Process
- FDA 101: Advisory Committees
- Wrinkle Relief: Injectable Cosmetic Fillers
- Radiology and Children: Extra Care Required
- Sea cuidadoso de fraude del cáncer en línea
- New Type of Latex Glove Cleared
- Avoid Fetal "Keepsake" Images, Heartbeat Monitors
- Getting Up to Date on Glucose Meters
- FDA's Strategic Plan: Charting Our Course for the Future
- Icy Hot Heat Therapy Products Recalled
- Vital Facts About HIV Home Test Kits
- Update to Label on Birth Control Patch
- Warning Required for Nonoxynol 9 Over-the-Counter Contraceptives
- How Safe are Color Additives?
- Medtronic Recalls Sprint Fidelis Cardiac Leads: Questions and Answers for Consumers
- Improving Medical Products for Children: Q & A with Dianne Murphy, M.D.
- Abbott Issues Correction for Certain Blood Glucose Meters
- The Critical Path: Making Medical Products Better, Faster, and Cheaper
- The Skinny on Liposuction
- First Artificial Neck Disc Approved
- Test Detects the Spread of Breast Cancer
- First Quick Test for Malaria
- Beware of Ticks … & Lyme Disease
- Removing Hair Safely
- Respirators for Public Health Emergencies
- Continuous 7-Day Glucose Monitoring System
- Recall: Complete MoisturePlus Contact Lens Solution
- Rapid Response Helps Save Limbs
- Test Determines Risk of Breast Cancer Returning
- Rapid Test Detects Viral Meningitis
- FDA Seizes Implantable Devices
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