As if the Intuitive Surgical wasn’t facing enough problems with its da Vinci Surgical Robot, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that the mechanical arms on some of the da Vinci robots could stall during robotic surgery, which...
FDA Approves a New Narcotic Painkiller…Is This a Mistake??
Prescription painkillers have been identified as one of the major causes of overdoses, as well as drug addiction. For the past few years, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recommended tighter controls on narcotic painkillers,...
FDA Approves Breast Cancer Medicine
(June 9, 2012) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new anti-HER2 therapy, called Perjeta (pertuzumab) to treat patients with HER2-positive late-stage (metastatic) breast cancer. Perjeta is combined with...