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The Food & Drug Administration is warning healthcare providers to be on the lookout for fake surgical mesh products that ape C.R. Bard’s (NYSE:BCR) Davol Inc. brand, saying hospitals and surgical centers not to mention patients with surgical mesh implants should be especially vigilant.The federal watchdog agency said [...]

“We’re not here to bash the FDA,” Mark DuVal, president of Minneapolis law firm DuVal & Associates, told a group of medical device executives and investors late Wednesday afternoon.Too late.The newly formed Minnesota Medical Device Alliance billed the gathering in the downtown Warehouse District as the first step to help save the Food and Drug [...]

Four Ohio organizations will receive a total of $19 million in federal funding to train workers for jobs in the health care industry. The funding comes from last year’s federal stimulus act and will be distributed by the U.S. Department of Labor.

Regulatory science must evolve along with advances in the life sciences, according to Food & Drug Administration commissioner Margaret Hamburg.

The Food & Drug Administration issued warnings to Millipore Corp. and Cardiac Sciences Corp. and a Class I recall to Synthes USA. The FDA has concerns about one company’s diagnostic equipment, and malfunctioning defibrillators and vertebral implants from the other two companies.

The Food & Drug Administration asks Congress for a $4.03 billion budget for fiscal 2011, a 23 percent increase over the prior year, as it looks to increase its scrutiny of the medical device, pharmaceutical, food and tobacco industries even as it focuses on self-improvement.

Medical device makers, health information technology providers and AdvaMed together spent more than $20 million lobbying Congress, the White House and the Food & Drug Administration during the fourth quarter.

League of Women Voters: Congress should not miss this historic opportunity to enact comprehensive health care reform legislation.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has posted a notice on alternatives to System 1, the medical instrument sterilizer made by STERIS Corp. in Mentor, Ohio, that the administration considers a “violating device.”

Business foes of health care reform legislation are outspending supporters at a rate of 2-to-1 for television advertisements as they get nervous about a final bill.