Johnson & Johnson won FDA approval for a medical device designed to deliver painkillers to hospitalized patients at the touch of a button. The Ionsys system delivers the opiod painkiller fentanyl cutaneously through a patch into the bloodstream. The company says the technology has built-in safeguards designed to prevent abuse.
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