Reports Of Patients’ Deaths Linked To Heart Devices Lurk Below Radar

(By Christina Jewett for Kaiser Health News)

The Food and Drug Administration continues to file thousands of reports of patients’ deaths related to medical devices through a reporting system that keeps the safety data out of the public eye.

The system is similar to a vast program exposed earlier this year by KHN that kept device-injury reports effectively hidden within the agency. The FDA shuttered the program after the article about it was published and released millions of records.  Continue reading article here…

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