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Dexcom Glucose Monitor Recall

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Recall for medical device used by 38m Americans over fatal malfunction

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Over two million blood glucose monitors from Dexcom could fail to give the audible warning.

This could lead to serious health problems like seizures, vomiting, fainting, or even death.

Problem in all four devices revolves around defective foam or an assembly error.

This can cause the speaker in the devices to lose contact with the internal circuit board .

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