"Those are valid concerns, " said Ward Whicker, a professor of radiological health sciences at Colorado State University and a pioneer in the field or radioecology, the study of how radiation moves through the environment.
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The inquiry will also focus on how Knight, after changing her job from the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health to the FDA's biological unit, continued to have access to Summit's and Visx's rec-ords.
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The official, Timothy Ulatowski of the FDA's center for devices and radiological health, called the silence after the inspection " only one step in the process, " and wouldn't say much else about the ongoing reviews.
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So far no one has died from a reprocessed device, but some of them have failed and been reported to the FDA, said Dr . David Feigal, director of the FDA's Center For Devices and Radiological Health.
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David Feigal, director of the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health, said the agency has begun to see some independent studies suggesting that " broader use of the product may not be better than the surgery ."
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The FDA continues to receive reports of electromagnetic interference with medical devices, " but not a large number, " said Don Witters, chairman of the electromagnetic compatibility work group of the agency's Center for Devices and Radiological Health.
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In June, a doctor at the Food and Drug Administration's Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Thomas B . Shope, warned that scans might expose people to unnecessary radiation, but many leading doctors say those fears are overblown ..
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As head of the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Feigal oversees the thousands of applications the agency receives annually for medical devices, along with the agency's post-market surveillance and recall systems for all medical devices, including implants.
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While the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health is responsible for approving and regulating lasers used for medical, construction or entertainment purposes, the FAA has the ultimate say in whether the permits will be granted when airspace is involved.
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Richard Gross, an official of the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health, said that although these injuries have occurred, it has usually been as a result of a problem during the procedure that required unusually long exposure from the fluoroscope.
