Healthcare
Lax testing of spinal cord stimulators threatens patient safety, consumer group warns
Public Citizen finds the U.S. health watchdog putting patients at risk by not requiring human trials for all new versions of the implant.
An ICIJ Investigation
Implant Files
Health authorities across the globe have failed to protect millions of patients from poorly tested implants, the first-ever global examination of the medical device industry reveals.
- Medical devices improve and save lives, but governments have allowed products on the market with little or no human testing that went on to cause great harm
- Devices pulled off the market in some countries over safety concerns remain for sale in others
- The device industry, and the regulators that oversee it struggle to quickly identify hazardous implants after they are released, leaving patients exposed
- Manufacturers, doctors, and others potentially linked more than 1.7 million injuries and nearly 83,000 deaths to medical devices in reports to U.S. regulators over the last decade
- Some of the highest-profile controversies in recent years involve products marketed to women, including contraceptive coils, vaginal mesh, and breast implant
Healthcare
Video: A Global Investigation Into Medical Device Harm
By Scilla Alecci
Nov 25, 2018
IMPLANT FILES
Medical Devices Harm Patients Worldwide As Governments Fail On Safety
By ICIJ
Nov 25, 2018
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