On September 29, 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the expansion of its Early Alert program to include all medical devices. This expansion builds on a pilot program that ...
KALISPELL, Mont. — Fifty years ago on Sept. 25, the ALERT program, also known as the advanced life-support and emergency rescue team began. ALERT was the second hospital-based air-ambulance program in ...
View the full ALERT 50 Year Anniversary Commemorative Publication here. Labor and delivery nurse Rosie Brester was working at Kalispell Regional Hospital in 1979 when she was told to hop onto an ...
The U.S. FDA’s early alert program has communicated a number of potential device malfunction episodes since its inception in late 2024, but the agency announced that the program is now moving out of ...