Wall Street Journal: Medical Devices Face New Scrutiny From FDA

In an article recently published in the Wall Street Journal, the American Food and Drug Administration have requested that medical device manufacturers justify the safety and effectiveness of certain "risky" products.

To view the article, please follow this link: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123920937438601763.html

The FDA supports Human Factors as an effective tool to make devices easier and safer to use, and now requires the application of Human Factors engineering to the design of new medical devices.