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Guidant Owner OKs $195 Million Settlement |
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Indianapolis Star | July 14, 2007 |
Boston Scientific Corp.'s Guidant unit agreed to pay $195 million to settle claims it hid defects in its heart defibrillators, the company said. The settlement will resolve more than 4,000 claims filed over Guidant's implantable defibrillators, which customers contend short-circuited from faulty insulation, Boston Scientific officials said in a statement Friday. |
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Boston Scientific Recalls Some Guidant Heart Devices |
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Washington Post | June 26, 2006 |
Boston Scientific corp. said on Monday it is recalling certain heart devices because of defects that could lead to a malfunction, sending its shares down more than 5 percent to their lowest point in nearly four years. The medical-device maker said the recall includes some lots of Insignia and Nexus pacemakers, Contak Renewal TR/TR2 cardiac resynchronization pacemakers and Ventak Prizm 2, Vitality, and Vitality 2 implantable cardioverter defibrillator or ICDs. |
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Boston Scientific Devices Woes Grow |
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The Boston Globe | June 23, 2006 |
A Guidant Corp. implantable heart device may fail about 10 times more often than the company projected last year, according to a US Food and Drug Administration analysis released in a Texas lawsuit. The confidential FDA document, written on June 16, 2005, was unsealed in a product liability lawsuit involving Guidant's defibrillators, $30,000 devices that restart hearts with electrical impulses. |
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New Guidant Warning Issued |
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Bloomberg News | May 16, 2006 |
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Boston Scientific Corp. said it has warned physicians that another 996 defibrillators made by its Guidant unit may quit prematurely, leaving heart failure patients unprotected from sudden cardiac death. |
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Reviewers Cite Flaws at Guidant |
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The New York Times | March 21, 2006 |
| An expert panel commissioned last summer by the Guidant Corporation to review its handling of heart device flaws said yesterday that the company had systematically failed to fully assess patient safety in deciding whether to publicize product failures. | |
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