Five years after first talking about a unique device identifier that medical device makers would need to put on most medical devices and packaging, the Food and Drug Administration is nearing the end ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced proposed rules for most medical devices to bear a unique device identifier on Tuesday, underscoring the agency’s efforts to improve adverse event ...

It isn’t every day that the House of Representatives takes bipartisan action to reverse a policy that’s been in place for two decades. But that’s what happened last month, when Democrats and ...

Back in 2014, the Department of Health started to take tentative steps towards setting a standard for tracking medical implants, supplies, and instruments. Its Scan4Safety program mandated that all ...