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Recalls of medical devices and drugs are up - can anyone predict when it will happen next?

  • Written by George Ball, Assistant Professor of Operations and Decision Technologies, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
Recalls of medical devices and drugs are up - can anyone predict when it will happen next?Nearly all medical product recalls are voluntarily issued by firms, instead of mandated by the FDA.wavebreakmedia/shutterstock.com

From the valsartan blood pressure drug contamination that exposed thousands of patients to cancer-causing impurities, to a massive pacemaker recall undertaken to fix a hazardous software bug in half-a-million cardiac...

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