Medical Device Makers Led By Medtronic, Baxter and Abbot, Spend Millions Lobbying For Deregulations.

NBC News reports steps taken by Medical device manufacturers to loosen the laws and rules governing those devices. It is an alarming revelation that everyone must be aware of.  Simply put, a cardiologist had this to say;
“It makes things easier for industry, it makes things worse for patients,” said cardiologist Rita Redberg about a recent industry-backed rule change.

After Teresa Hershey nearly died from complications of a hysterectomy, she wanted future patients to know about the potential dangers of choosing robotic surgery for the operation. In 2013, the California woman added a detailed account of how the robot that operated on her had burned a hole in her bowels to a database maintained by the Food and Drug Administration.

The database is meant to warn the medical community about the risks associated with medical devices. Hershey’s was one of hundreds of similar accounts about the same robotic device.

But earlier this year, the FDA made a rule change that could curtail that database, which was already considered to be of limited scope by medical researchers and the FDA itself.