Congressional Update, Featured - Friday, July 3, 2009 7:10 - 0 Comments

A report on the medical devices legislation

Patients’ health and safety should not be compromised because of the on-going questions surrounding the Food and Drug Administration and its oversight of medical devices. Recently, a hearing by the U.S. Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health examining the regulation of medical devices took place only a week after another Medtronic device – 37,000 pacemakers – were recalled because the devices were found to seriously, even fatally, injure patients. Medtronic has recommended the removal of the pacemakers, further putting patients’ health at risk by subjecting them to invasive surgery. Continue…