News We’re Watching: Senators Call For Recall Info, TriClip Gets Panel Date

This week, US Senators Dick Durbin and Richard Blumenthal asked a government watchdog to review the FDA’s device recall authority; the FDA announced a panel date for Abbott’s MitraClip; and the DermaSensor skin cancer detection tool got FDA authorization.

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Citing reporting from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and ProPublica, US senators Dick Durbin, D-IL, and Richard Blumenthal, D-CT, are calling for the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to review the FDA’s oversight of medical device recalls.

The senators reference news reports that say Philips Respironics failed to submit timely and comprehensive adverse event reports on his...