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Must Watch Live Feed: Hearings on Mesh, Medical Device Budget Pits Patient Safety v. Industry

Feb 13th, 2012 | By
Must Watch Live Feed: Hearings on Mesh, Medical Device Budget Pits Patient Safety v. Industry

A must watch show How to Watch:  Go to www.energycommerce.house.gov  (link will show up when gavel begins hearing, live feed)  Hearing: “Reauthorization of MDUFA: What It Means for Jobs, Innovation and Patients” When: The Subcommittee on Health has scheduled a hearing on Wednesday, February 15, 2012, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn
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We hope you find this a helpful resource. National News Editor, Jane Akre, began MDND with the hope of providing the latest news, information and perspective from the regulatory, industry and patient point of view, something that goes under-reported in much of the coverage of medical devices. The public is just now becoming aware that many devices do not undergo the same scrutiny as prescription drugs and are instead grandfathered in under an FDA loophole that has gone largely unchanged since the 1970s. As a result, patients become the post-market clinical trial subjects, and many suffer devastating and permanent injuries.