{"id":13170,"date":"2019-05-06T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13170"},"modified":"2019-05-06T07:45:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T11:45:00","slug":"fda-to-end-program-that-hid-millions-of-reports-on-faulty-medical-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13170","title":{"rendered":"FDA To End Program That Hid Millions Of Reports On Faulty Medical Devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Christina Jewett for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>The Food and Drug Administration announced it is shutting down its controversial \u201calternative summary reporting\u201d program and ending its decades-long practice of allowing medical device makers to conceal millions of reports of harm and malfunctions from the general public.<\/p>\n<p>The agency said it will open past records to the public within weeks.\u00a0 Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/fda-to-end-program-that-hid-millions-of-reports-on-faulty-medical-devices\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=72379321&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_wilqjOmvayC0XS8U5bj1G1Cy3SFTYJOck7pmpQQfsV4DtUYTQ36zKHN_4TGkm4I3HKZUygEbuhBvbzk3YhCPUdKljkg&amp;_hsmi=72379321\">article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Christina Jewett for Kaiser Health News) The Food and Drug Administration announced it is shutting down its controversial \u201calternative<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fda","category-medical-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13171,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13170\/revisions\/13171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}