Meaning to close by folding or bringing together is from mid-14c. Sense of to set (someone) free (from) (c.1500) is obsolete except in dialectal phrases such as to get shut of. Colloquial shut-eye for sleep is from 1899. To shut (one's) mouth desist from speaking is recorded from 1340.
Medical Device Regulation Act. Medical Device Amendments of 1976. An Act to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to provide for the safety and effectiveness of medical devices intended for human use, and for other purposes. Enacted by.
Are federal regulators playing fast and loose with the health of the tens of millions of Americans who rely on medical devices to see, walk and survive? That's the suggestion of a new study that finds most medical devices go to market with little evidence that they work or are safe.