Surgical staplers, including those made by Minnesota-run Medtronic, have been associated with such high numbers of deaths, injuries and malfunctions that the Food and Drug Administration is ...

Three people who say they were seriously injured by Medtronic surgical staplers are suing the company for knowingly selling defective devices and intentionally hiding risks from doctors and patients.

Tens of thousands of surgical staplers for internal use have been associated with serious adverse events, prompting a new proposal from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to reclassify the ...

The FDA is warning healthcare providers about the risk of serious injury, malfunction and death associated with surgical staplers and implantable surgical staples. Between January 2011 and March 2018, ...

Makers of surgical staplers and the implantable staples they’re loaded with will now need to jump through extra hoops before their products can be used to divide, seal and connect internal tissues for ...

The US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) General and Plastic Surgery Devices Panel recommended reclassifying surgical staplers from class I (subject to general controls only) to class II (subject ...

Innovative and expanding surgical stapling portfolio offers outstanding clinical performance in wider range of laparoscopic surgical procedures MANSFIELD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Covidien (NYSE: COV), ...

Insight provides an in-depth look at health care issues in and affecting California. Have a story suggestion? Let us know. The Food and Drug Administration announced a sweeping plan on Friday to ...

An independent health safety group identified misuse of surgical staplers as a top health technology concern. The ECRI Institute, a nonprofit that maintains a database of hospital-reported adverse ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is alerting clinicians about an increasing number of medical device reports (MDRs) associated with the use of surgical staplers for internal use and ...

A surgical stapler in use during August and September has been recalled after being connected to one death and seven injuries. Ethicon pulled 8,256 of its Echelon Flex Endopath staplers because, as ...