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Unlicensed Cosmetic Surgery Hospitalizes 6 in N.J.

New Jersey medical authorities are investigating the incidence of and issuing alerts on unlicensed cosmetic surgery providers after 6 women suffered...

Rotator Cuff Repair Restores Strength, Not Function

Rotator cuff surgery may restore a patient's normal shoulder strength, but mobility issues persist in the repaired joint, according to researchers a...

Do Patients Expect Too Much From Joint Replacement?

Even with a thorough pre-op education program, more than two-thirds of joint replacement patients don't share the expectations that their surgeons d...

Archive > January, 2010 Vol. XI, No. 1
Inside the "Non-Recall Recall" of the SS1
Citing safety concerns and a product that's been modified but never approved, the FDA is giving Steris System 1 owners 6 months to buy another reprocessor.
Dan O'Connor, Editor-in-Chief

Thousands of Steris System 1 sterilizer users have to make room in their capital equipment budgets to replace their SS1s, an unplanned purchase they must make by mid-year thanks to last month's loosely worded safety alert from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that one surgical facility manager called a "non-recall recall."

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