FDA orders Abbott to speed up changes at Texas plant (Chicago Tribune)
The federal Food and Drug Administration has told Abbott Laboratories to move faster on its effort to fix quality-control problems the FDA identified last year at an Abbott diagnostics-product production plant in Texas.

Survey Finds Medical Device Companies Making Steady Progress Implementing AdvaMed Ethics Code (PrimeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance)
BOSTON, March 29, 2007 -- Medical device companies embrace the need to strengthen compliance activities in light of increasingly stringent government scrutiny, but they are challenged as never before to implement comprehensive sales and marketing compliance programs, according to a survey released today by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, King & Spalding LLP and Compliance-Alliance LLC at the Medical ...

Regulators want Abbott factory to be fixed faster FDA says medical diagnostic machines fail to conform (Chicago Tribune)
The Food and Drug Administration wants Abbott Laboratories to move faster on fixing quality-control problems the regulatory agency identified last year at a Texas production facility.