How Some Medical Implants Are Making People Sick
Spencer Woodman and Sasha Chavkin, reporters for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), discuss their findings in the first-ever global examination of the medical device industry.
"Medical devices and their safety is an issue that impacts everyone… we felt that medical devices are also a global system, it’s not just in one country where a device is sold or the regulation takes place," says @sashachavkin.
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"Medical devices are held to lower standards in terms of safety and effectiveness than pharmaceutical drugs, that’s baked into the language of U.S. laws and laws around the world," says @spencerwoodman.
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"That the FDA was allowing manufacturers to keep injury reports hidden from the public…. Last year, when the FDA finally obliged [manufactures] to start reporting injuries, we saw a surge in more than a 20-fold increase in reported breast implant injuries," says @sashachavkin.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) November 27, 2018
