{"id":1005,"date":"2012-10-25T16:19:48","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T16:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctcps.org\/blog\/?p=1005"},"modified":"2013-01-22T18:04:59","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T18:04:59","slug":"panel-says-medtronic-edited-product-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=1005","title":{"rendered":"Panel Says Medtronic Edited Product Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times\u00a0 |\u00a0 By <a title=\"More Articles by BARRY MEIER\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/m\/barry_meier\/index.html\">BARRY MEIER<\/a>\u00a0 Published: October 25, 2012 \u00a0Officials of <a title=\"More information about Medtronic Inc\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/business\/companies\/medtronic_inc\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\">Medtronic<\/a>, the medical device maker, edited studies by outside researchers about a controversial spine treatment sold by the company, inserting claims that their product was superior to a competing one, according to a Senate finance <a title=\"The report.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.finance.senate.gov\/issue\/?id=0e41acea-a4ef-4180-b3ff-5e88667dcae5\">committee report<\/a> released Thursday. \u00a0 \u00a0The treatment at issue, <a title=\"A description.\" href=\"http:\/\/wwwp.medtronic.com\/Newsroom\/LinkedItemDetails.do?itemId=1101758508446&amp;format=print&amp;lang=en_US\">known as Infuse<\/a>, uses a bioengineered protein to fuse spinal vertebrae as a way of reducing back pain. <a title=\"In-depth reference and news articles about Spinal fusion.\" href=\"http:\/\/health.nytimes.com\/health\/guides\/surgery\/spinal-fusion\/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier\">Spinal fusion<\/a> procedures can also use a competing technique that employs real bone. In recent years, critics of Infuse have charged that Medtronic overplayed its benefits in studies in medical journals that also played down its risks.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/10\/25\/business\/senate-panel-says-medtronic-edited-studies.html?emc=eta1&amp;_r=0\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times\u00a0 |\u00a0 By BARRY MEIER\u00a0 Published: October 25, 2012 \u00a0Officials of Medtronic, the medical device maker, edited studies by outside researchers about a controversial spine treatment sold <\/p>\n<p class=\"readMore\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=1005\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,59],"tags":[138,474,63,62,476,475,102],"class_list":["post-1005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showcase","category-patient-safety-activism","tag-food-and-drug-administration","tag-infuse","tag-medical-devices","tag-medtronic","tag-senate-finance-committee","tag-the-spine-journal","tag-unsafe-medical-devices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1113,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions\/1113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}