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Potential Adverse Effects / Potential Injuries:

Death
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Jul. 2, 07: Accident Raises Safety Concerns About Chinese Tires
Wall Street Journal reports that more than 450,000 Chinese-made tires may lack an important safety feature. read more »

Jul. 2, 07: Accident Raises Safety Concerns About Chinese Tires
Wall Street Journal reports that more than 450,000 Chinese-made tires may lack an important safety feature read more »

Jun. 7, 06: Guidant letter about risks never sent
Newly unsealed court documents show Guidant Corp. drafted a letter warning doctors of a dangerous electrical malfunction in some of its devices designed to restore a normal heartbeat, but the letter ... read more »

Jun. 7, 06: Guidant never sent letter warning about devices: WSJ
Newly released records show that Guidant Corp. drafted a letter last year to tell doctors about significant defects in the company's heart devices, but they were never sent, a report said on Wednesda... read more »

Mar. 13, 06: Guidant Warns Doctors on Defibrillators
Guidant Corp., which is being acquired for $27 billion by Boston Scientific Corp., cautioned doctors Monday to check the voltage on certain implantable defibrillators after the company received sever... read more »

Mar. 13, 06: Guidant Cautions Doctors to Check Devices
Medical device maker Guidant Corp. voluntarily cautioned doctors Monday to check the voltage on certain implantable devices that shock the heart back to a normal rhythm after several reports of defec... read more »

Mar. 10, 06: Guidant Exec Announces Early Retirement
The head of medical-device maker Guidant Corp.'s embattled cardiac division will retire early, he said Friday. read more »

Jan. 18, 06: Boston Scientific wins over Guidant
Guidant abandoned its support for a $24.2 billion acquisition bid from Johnson & Johnson in favor of Tuesday's far richer $27.2 billion offer from Boston Scientific. read more »

Jan. 17, 06: Why the battle for troubled Guidant?
Is Guidant worth all this fuss? read more »

Dec. 27, 05: Guidant Gets FDA Warning Letter on Facility
Guidant Corp., one of the nation's top makers of pacemakers and heart defibrillators, said Tuesday that it received a warning letter from federal regulators regarding its operations in St. read more »

Dec. 27, 05: Cornelius's Guidant Knocked For Knowing Failure Rate
Prosecutors saw company officials kept quiet about cardiac device. read more »

Dec. 26, 05: Guidant's Device Failure Rate Revealed
Guidant Projected That Up to 15 Out of Every 10,000 Defibrillators Might Fail, Documents Show read more »

Dec. 26, 05: Files Show Guidant Foresaw Some Risks
By BARRY MEIER New York Times Officials of the Guidant Corporation projected in an internal report that some patients might die as a result of short circuits in a company heart device, but it did not ... read more »

Boston Scientific Warns Of Problems With Battery In Implantable Guidant Defibrillators



On April 9, 2007, Boston Scientific notified doctors that some of the implantable heart defibrillators produced by its Guidant Unit contain batteries that could deplete early. Included in this warning are the “Vitality” family of implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) and the “Contak Renewal” line of cardiac resynchronization therapy devices (CRT-Ds). Boston Scientific estimates approximately 2 percent of these devices are at risk for early battery depletion and advises patients with these devices to have them monitored every month instead of every three months.

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