The Washington Post, April 17, 2014. The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday took the rare step of urging doctors to stop performing a surgical procedure used on tens of thousands of women each year to remove uterine growths, saying the practice risks spreading hidden cancers within a woman’s body.
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FDA Advises Halt of Common Uterine Fibroid Procedure Citing Cancer Risks, Overseer Urges Stop in Use of Morcellators to Remove Uterine Growths
Wall Street Journal, April 17, 2014. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday advised doctors to stop using power morcellators in women’s abdomens to remove uterine growths called fibroids, citing the risk of spreading cancer.
Read More »Medical Device Recalls Nearly Doubled in a Decade
Wall Street Journal, March 21, 2014. Recalls of defective medical devices nearly doubled in the decade from 2003 through 2012, according to a Food and Drug Administration report due Friday.
Read More »Study Finds Link Between Abuse Victims’ Deaths, Abuser Arrests
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, March 3, 2014. A study released Monday that followed up on a 1980s report about mandatory domestic violence arrest policies in Milwaukee found an increased death rate among victims when suspects were arrested, rather than merely warned, by police.
Read More »Clinical Evidence in FDA Drug Approvals Varies Widely
Modern Healthcare, January 22, 2014. “With new drugs, there is often an exaggeration of the benefits and underreporting of the risks,” said Diana Zuckerman, NCHR president, who has testified at several hearings on drug safety. “There’s so much emphasis on drugs being the latest, the most innovative and novel—but unfortunately this usually means it’s just new, not necessarily better.”
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