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Does a travel advisory affect your plans?

Does a travel advisory affect your plans? If, let's say, you plan to travel to this country and then a few days before your departure, your embassy releases a travel advisory stating the negative...

A Conversation I Never Want to Have

Mr. Smith, welcome back to the real world!Did you know that your heart stopped earlier today, but thanks to your friendly neighborhood paramedic and a handy-dandy AED, we got it going again?Amazing,...

St Jude Announces Defibrillator Update Needed

61 microseconds.That's a tiny, tiny fraction of a second. 0.000061 second to be exact. Heck, to put it in perspective, light travels a mile in a vacuum in a little over 5 microseconds. But if an...

Pfizer Responds: What to Do With Tikosyn Shortage

For dofetilide users, the shortage of 500 microgram pills (0.5mg) that I mentioned earlier has been temporarily rectified by Pfizer - it seems they're willing to provide four 125-microgram tablets...

Communication 101

For the majority of people, or people not taking dofetilide (Tykosin), this communication won't mean much, but it pertains to a bugaboo I have with (in this case) the pharmaceutical industry's effort...

Kick 'em When They're Down

The hallmark of junk science reporting is quoting statistics out of context.“Heart Wires May Pose More Risk for the Young” was the title of the article (subscription) in the Wall Street Journal this...

Challenges with a Lead Recall

Not surprisingly, the inevitable investigations and litigation regarding the Sprint Fidelis lead situation has started:(WSJ) In early signs of the pressure likely to come for Medtronic and the FDA,...

If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It

Reiterating most electrophysiologists' recommendations regarding Medtronic's Sprint Fidelis recall from the market, Tom Burton from the Wall Street Journal reports this morning:Perhaps most...

Medtronic to Pull Its Most Popular Defibrillator Lead

Tomorrow, Medtronic will begin notifying patients and doctors that they will be voluntarily stop selling their most popular thin defibrillator lead, the Sprint Fidelis (Model 6949), because of a...

Boston Scientific Plagued by Another Defibrillator Advisory

Just what Boston Scientific (BSX) didn't need was another advisory about their defibrillators: this one regarding prolonged charge times on the Vitality and Assure defibrillator (ICD) lines and the...