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Revealed: faulty medical implants harm patients around world – from theguardian.com
Hernia repair mesh is just one part of a much bigger problem.
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This is a very important topic.
Here are a few additional recent articles along the same lines, and likely from the same investigation series… I have attached a graphic from one of these articles too, which interestingly shows that ‘surgical mesh’ is one of the top injury categories. Fascinating stuff.
“Pharma firm sold mesh implant despite pain warnings” (on vaginal mesh, but …)
“Internal emails between executives, shared with the Guardian, show staff at Johnson & Johnson (J&J) were concerned that the plastic material the mesh was made from had the potential to turn “hard as a rock” and roll up like a “folded potato chip” inside patients.”
“FDA’s ‘flawed’ device pathway persists with industry backing”
“Roughly 3,000 medical devices enter the U.S. market every year through a system that generally requires little or no patient testing to verify safety and effectiveness.
Unlike new pharmaceuticals, most medical devices reviewed by the Food and Drug Administration are cleared based on similarities to already-approved devices, not specific clinical trial testing.”
https://apnews.com/040fd5859f5c4800abaa9bb5c902e465
“Spinal-cord stimulators help some patients, injure others”
https://apnews.com/86ba45b0a4ad443fad1214622d13e6cb
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Deleted. Maybe too sensitive. It’s a tough subject.
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And another. I got green-screened,it might be a double.
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