Sydney Lupkin, Kaiser Health News

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FDA Keeps Brand-Name Drugs On A Fast Path To Market ― Despite Manufacturing Concerns

The agency approved Gilead’s “game changer” hepatitis C cure, bypassing concerns raised by its own federal inspectors.

Five Things We Found In The FDA’s Hidden Device Database

The Food and Drug Administration released two decades of previously hidden data containing millions of injuries or malfunctions by medical devices. Here’s what we’ve learned so far.

Like Clockwork: How Daylight Saving Time Stumps Hospital Record Keeping

One of the most popular electronic health records software systems used by hospitals, Epic Systems, can delete records or require cumbersome workarounds when clocks are set back for an hour, prompting many hospitals to opt for paper records for part of the night shift.