Medtronic Lawsuit

When Medtronic announced the recall of their Sprint Fidelis leads, UPS set up operations at the Puerto Rico manufacturing plant which allowed them to meet the suddenly high demand for older lead types.
By utilizing the overnight shipping options of UPS, Medtronic was able to send out its older leads directly to their clients in order […]

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Medtronic, Inc. has announced that they are going to cut manufacturing costs by 25% by moving a lot of the manufacturing process to Mexico. 
The company plans to consolidate the number of people needed and will consolidate its factories. In addition, they plan to move more of the manufacturing process to Mexico. The company currently only […]

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The FDA announced that it saw a higher rate of death among patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms who were treated with a Medtronic device than with traditional surgery after 5 years.
 The FDA announced, in a public health notification on their website, that the Medtronic AneuRx stent-graft device is the only item being studied because it […]

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Implantable medical devices, like Medtronic’s pacemakers and defibrillators, seem like they should be secure because of their location inside the body; however, a recent team of researchers has shown that the wireless signals that communicate with a computer are vulnerable to hacking.
In a recent academic paper, computer scientists from the Harvard Medical School, the University […]

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Following recalls of numerous companies’ defibrillator leads, safeguards are being urged. It seems ironic that airline passengers, cell-phone users, and tv-watchers have more safeguards on their products than does an individual that has a defibrillator implanted in his or her body.
These safeguards  are urged following Medtronic’s recall of their Sprint Fidelis leads in October of […]

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