Ethicon LLC (“Ethicon”) is the assignee of U.S. Patent No. 9,844,379 (“the ’379 patent”), which is directed to a surgical stapler containing two main components: a stapling assembly and a “lockout ...

The report is intended to predict what issues will be important in the coming year and make practical recommendations to hospitals to prevent them, said Robert Schluth, senior project officer of ...

Tens of thousands of surgical staplers for internal use have been associated with serious adverse events, prompting a new proposal from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to reclassify the ...

Johnson & Johnson MedTech has introduced the ETHICON 4000 Stapler, a surgical device for managing tissue complexities and delivering staple line integrity. It aims to reduce risk factors for surgical ...

For Standard Bariatrics, a Cincinnati-based surgical devicemaker, collecting series B financing was a multi-step affair. It first locked down commitments of $35 million last June, shortly after ...

The surgical stapler's market is segmented into linear surgical staplers, circular surgical staplers, skin surgical staplers, and other surgical staplers based on type. Linear surgical staplers ...

In 2019, Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Ethicon issued a recall for its Proximate® reloadable surgical staplers due to a flaw with the device that may have resulted in staple lines being compromised ...

The Food and Drug Administration has acknowledged that more than 56,000 never-before-disclosed surgical stapler malfunctions were quietly reported to the agency from 2011 through 2018. The newly ...

The Food and Drug Administration announced a sweeping plan on Friday to review and address the safety of surgical staplers, including a new examination of seven years' worth of hidden reports ...

The Food and Drug Administration has acknowledged that more than 56,000 never-before-disclosed surgical stapler malfunctions were quietly reported to the agency from 2011 through 2018. The newly ...