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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
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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