FDA approves Quill's tissue repair device:
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
The US FDA has approved for sale Quill Medical's barbed polydioxanone suture for closing wounds in dermal tissue. The product represents the first in a line of tissue repair devices being developed by the company, that enables sutures to "self-anchor" themselves in tissue without the surgeon having to perform a suture knot, said the Research Triangle Park, North Carolina-based firm. Quill Medical CE marked the product for sale in Europe in May.