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medical devices
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Flawed approval process led to flawed jaw implants
In the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, reporter John Fauber proves that it’s possible to do cutting-edge reporting on conflicts of interest…
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Trade group says conflicts negate GPOs’ leverage
A recent GAO report looked at group purchasing organizations and established that they were pervasive, and that they’d adopted some…
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Medicare competitive bidding ramps up
The California HealthCare Foundation Center for Health Reporting and the San Bernardino County (Calif.) Sun teamed up for a package…
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X-ray regulation, inspections a patchwork
The Investigative Reporting Workshop’s Caroline Stetler explains what she calls “the patchwork regulation of technicians who perform imaging exams,” and…
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FDA, device makers, patient advocates lock horns
In MedPage Today, Joyce Frieden breaks down the FDA’s day-long town hall meeting that brought together device makers, federal officials…
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Conflicts of interest + off-label use = Blockbuster
Medtronic is back at the FDA, asking for approval of another spine fusion product. Not coincidentally, the Journal Sentinel‘s John…
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Identical tubing demonstrates FDA’s inaction
In The New York Times, Gardiner Harris outlines the problem of medical tubing that looks very similar – leading to…
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WSJ: Small hospitals get little benefit from device
In The Wall Street Journal, John Carreyrou uses the problems of a small New Hampshire hospital to illustrate how difficult…
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Deconstructing a NYT op-ed in three acts
On April 17, New York Times‘ op-ed columnist Thomas Friedman wrote a column about globalization, international competition and entrepreneurship. Here,…
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FDA steps up regulation of infusion pumps (#AHCJ2010)
Infusion pumps, a widely varied class of devices which typically mete out precise, time-delayed doses through IVs and related means,…