The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared for marketing a new safety engineered short-term peripheral Intra-Venous (IV) Catheter. The product, VantageCath, is designed to significantly reduce exposure to bloodborne pathogens during the placement of the catheter and also provide the clinician with desirable feature sets.
Existing safety engineered peripheral IVs have mechanisms to protect the [...]

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Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT) today announced that the FDA has cleared the OneTouch UltraLink Meter as the new wireless meter exclusively certified by Medtronic to wirelessly communicate with Medtronic diabetes management products in the United States. This new meter uses Medtronic-certified wireless technology to transmit glucose readings directly to MiniMed Paradigm insulin pumps and the [...]

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Yulex Corporation, a company that produces natural rubber found to be safe for medical devices, received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market the first medical device made from guayule, a desert crop native to the U.S. Southwest.

The examination gloves made with patented Yulex(R) natural rubber, and cleared by [...]

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Alcon, Inc. (NYSE: ACL) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved PATANASE (olopatadine hydrochloride) nasal spray for the relief of the symptoms of seasonal allergic rhinitis in patients 12 years of age and older. PATANASE nasal spray, an extension to Alcon’s market-leading ocular allergy product line, will be available in [...]

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