FDA Approves Defibrillator Without Prescription
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People worried about sudden cardiac arrest no longer need a doctor's prescription to buy devices that jump-start the heart.     The Food and Drug Administration for the first time agreed Thursday to let consumers go online and purchase the $2,000 devices for home use...
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The Food and Drug Administration gave the go-ahead last week for the Philips HeartStart, an automated external defibrillator (AED), to be sold over the counter without a prescription.
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After three decades of research and a difficult three-year human trial, one of the most complex and expensive devices in medical history won federal approval yesterday: the first fully implantable artificial heart.
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Plans are being considered to make an antibiotic - for eyes - available without prescription at pharmacies.
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ARIZONA-MADE HEART: An experimental artificial heart that saved a Mesa teen&#39;s life won Food and Drug Administration approval Monday, making the technology available to others throughout the country.
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In recent years, automated external defibrillators (AEDs) have entered public spaces to treat someone suffering what bystanders may assume is a heart attack: Clutching the chest, the victim collapses, unconscious.
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When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved implanting microchips in humans, the manufacturer said it would save lives, letting doctors scan the tiny transponders to access patients' medical records almost instantly. The FDA found "reasonable assurance" the device was safe, and a sub-agency even called it one of 2005's top "innovative technologies."
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The FDA has appoved a drug called alli, the first diet pill that can be bought without a prescription
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The Food and Drug Administration will consider whether one of the oldest of the cholesterol-lowering drugs, Mevacor, can be sold without a prescription.
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Drug regulators are to consider making the pill available over the counter without a doctors prescription.
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An unsurprising response from the FDA.
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An experimental Procter & Gamble  antiarrhythmia drug significantly reduced the number of  episodes of dangerous heart rates in patients with implanted  defibrillators, and the need for uncomfortable shocks from the  devices in a late-stage clinical trial.
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A &quot;pill-in-the-pocket&quot; self-treatment program can reduce emergency room visits and hospitalizations by nearly 90 percent for people with the heartbeat abnormality called atrial fibrillation, a new study says.
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Learning through tests that oneâs defibrillator has a faulty lead can create agonizing decisions for patients and doctors.
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Federal regulators approved use of an artificial heart yesterday, marking the first time a mechanical device has been made widely available to replace a failing human organ.
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Forest and Mylan receive FDA approval for Bystolic.
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Medtronic Inc. MDT.N on Monday said  U.S. regulators approved its Insync Sentry implantable  defibrillator (ICD) months earlier than it expected.