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FDA: Defibrillators malfunction too often, costing human lives WASHINGTON (AP) — Defibrillators, those devices that are supposed to shock heart failure patients back to life, are malfunctioning far too often, costing people their lives, according to a report released Monday by the Food and Drug Administration. In the last five years, the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health has received more than 28,000 reports of defibrillators failing and companies that make the devices have issued 68 recalls involving hundreds of thousands of faulty devices, the FDA said. And the problems appear to have been increas-
ing rapidly over that period of time, the agency said. Some of the specific examples are disturbing. In one case, a company designed a circuit that monitored the voltage in the device to draw power from the same source it was supposed to monitor. That caused a momentary drop in voltage, triggering a faulty signal to shut down the device, preventing it from delivering a shock. That may have caused a patient’s death, the FDA said. Because of the problems, the FDA announced a program aimed at helping companies develop safer, more ef-
fective defibrillators. The agency concluded that many of the failures could be prevented by improving the design and manufacturing practices of the companies that make the devices. For example, in several cases companies bought components for the devices from suppliers that did not meet the required specifications. The program will start with a public meeting Dec. 15 and Dec. 16 at the FDA’s headquarters in Silver Spring, Md., to bring together representatives from companies and others to discuss ways to improve the devices.
Cigarette warning drafts are designed to shock WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal drug regulators Wednesday unveiled 36 proposed warning labels for cigarette packages, including one showing a toe tag on a corpse and another in which a mother blows smoke on her baby. Designed to cover half the
surface area of a pack or carton of cigarettes, and a fifth of any advertisements for them, the labels are intended to spur smokers to quit by providing graphic reminders of tobacco’s dangers. The labels are required under a law passed last year
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that gave the Food and Drug Administration the power to regulate, but not ban, tobacco products for the first time. Public health officials hope that the new labels will re-energize the nation’s anti-smoking efforts, which have stalled in recent years. Some cigarette manufacturers vowed to fight the labels in federal court, saying they infringe on the companies’ property and free-speech rights. A federal judge in Kentucky ruled in January in a related lawsuit that the FDA could require graphic warning labels but that a proposed restriction intended to eliminate attractive coloring from cigarette packaging infringed on free speech.
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Pelican day at the port It’s winter on the South Coast, yet a few pelicans are still being spot-
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