Company Warns of Pacemaker Defect
From Times Wire Reports
St. Paul, Minn.-based St. Jude Medical Inc., the nation’s second-largest manufacturer of pacemakers, said that some of its pacemakers could malfunction because of an electrical connection problem. It was the second time in the last month that the medical device maker warned of possible defects in its products. The company said a defective batch of epoxy could cause a malfunction in about 10% of the 891 Affinity pacemakers manufactured last summer. Problems have been reported in 33 of the devices so far.
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