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Food And Drug Administration (FDA)

FDA, AAMI Examine Medical Device Reprocessing Issues

Reprocessing medical devices is an intricate, complicated task, and lapses in infection prevention practices can lead to poor patient outcomes and infections. Cognizant of these implications and the role that medical device preprocessing plays in the larger healthcare ...More
January 6, 2012
Posted in Articles, Disinfection & Sterilization, Policies and Practice
FDA to Protect Important Class of Antimicrobial Drugs for Treating Human Illness

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an order that prohibits certain uses of the cephalosporin class of antimicrobial drugs in cattle, swine, chickens and turkeys effective April 5, 2012. Antimicrobial drugs are important for treating disease in both humans and ...More
January 5, 2012
Posted in News
FDA, CDC Issue Update on Investigation of Cronobacter Bacteria Illness in Infants

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and state health departments continue to investigate four recent cases of Cronobacter infection in infants in four states: Florida, Illinois, Missouri, and Oklahoma. The agenies say ...More
January 2, 2012
Posted in News
FDA Expands Use of Prevnar 13 Vaccine for People Ages 50 and Older

Prevnar 13, a pneumococcal 13-valent conjugate vaccine, was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for people ages 50 years and older to prevent pneumonia and invasive disease caused by the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae. Pneumococcal pneumonia, caused when ...More
January 2, 2012
Posted in News
FDA Expands Use of HIV Drug Isentress to Children and Adolescents

Isentress (raltegravir) was approved today by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use with other antiretroviral drugs for the treatment of HIV-1 infection for children and adolescents ages 2-18. The drug is part of a class of medications called HIV integrase strand ...More
December 22, 2011
Posted in News
FDA Collaboration to Monitor TASS Outbreaks Associated with Cataract Surgery

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other government and professional organizations today unveiled a program to monitor medical devices used in cataract surgery in an effort to stem outbreaks of a rare, inflammatory condition associated with the procedure. The ...More
December 20, 2011
Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
AAMI, FDA to Hold Conference on Medical Device Standards and Regulation

Industry professionals from around the world will meet at the 22nd annual AAMI/FDA International Conference on Medical Device Standards and Regulation, to be held March 21-22, 2012, at the Hyatt Dulles Hotel in Herndon, Va. (near Washington, D.C.'s Dulles International ...More
December 6, 2011
Posted in News, Disinfection & Sterilization
FDA Approves First Supplemental Test for Chagas Disease

The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first test for use as an additional, more specific test on human serum or plasma specimens found to be positive for antibodies to Trypanosoma cruzi (T. cruzi). T. cruzi causes Chagas disease, a serious and potentially fatal ...More
November 22, 2011
Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
FDA Cites Gaps in Medical Device Quality

While device industry revenues have grown over the past decade, “serious adverse events” have outpaced that growth by 8 percent each year, highlighting a gap in device quality, according to a report from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and information on the ...More
November 14, 2011
Posted in News
FDA Launches Website on Safe Disposal of Used Needles and Other Sharps

The Food and Drug Administration has launched a new website for patients and caregivers on the safe disposal of needles and other sharps that are used at home, at work and while traveling. The website will help people understand the public health risks created by improperly ...More
November 11, 2011
Posted in News, PPE & Standard Precautions