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 ...

Ethicon ECHELON FLEX Powered Staplers Associated with Improved Clinical and Economic Outcomes in First Real-World Assessment Versus Manual Staplers Bleeding complications dropped by nearly half when ...

Surgeons use surgical staples to close an incision after surgery as an alternative option to sutures. They are quick and easy to use and typically have a low risk of infection. During most surgical ...

Ethicon, which also makes staplers, said it has not used the reporting exemption. In the agency's Friday announcement, Dr. William Maisel, chief medical officer in the FDA’s Center for Devices and ...

The Echelon Flex Powered Vascular Stapler--Courtesy of Johnson & Johnson Johnson & Johnson ($JNJ) chairman and CEO Alex Gorsky only highlighted a handful of upcoming ...

The Food and Drug Administration announced a sweeping plan on Friday to review and address the safety of surgical staplers, including a new examination of seven years’ worth of hidden reports ...