{"id":1050,"date":"2012-12-18T18:34:01","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T18:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctcps.org\/blog\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2013-01-22T18:03:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T18:03:14","slug":"a-name-blacked-out-a-reputation-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=1050","title":{"rendered":"A Name Blacked Out, a Reputation at Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NY Times\u00a0By <a title=\"More Articles by BARRY MEIER\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/m\/barry_meier\/index.html\" rel=\"author\">BARRY MEIER<\/a>\u00a0 Published: November 26, 2012\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 Is covering a product\u2019s name in a public document a sign that a company has something to hide? And how should doctors, patients and investors react if the product at issue is one on which peoples\u2019 lives and a company\u2019s fortunes depend?\u00a0 Dr. Robert Hauser, a cardiologist who studies heart devices, has raised concerns about wires in defibrillators from St. Jude.\u00a0 Such questions now loom over <a title=\"More information about St Jude Medical Inc\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/business\/companies\/st_jude_medical_inc\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\">St. Jude Medical<\/a> after the disclosure last week that its executives had blacked out the name of a heart device component when <a title=\"The report as released by St. Jude Medical.\" href=\"http:\/\/investors.sjm.com\/phoenix.zhtml?c=73836&amp;p=irol-secText&amp;TEXT=aHR0cDovL2lyLmludC53ZXN0bGF3YnVzaW5lc3MuY29tL2RvY3VtZW50L3YxLzAwMDA4OTcxMDEtMTItMDAxODE5L3htbC9zdWJkb2N1bWVudC8y\">they released<\/a> a critical federal report involving the product.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/11\/27\/business\/st-jude-medical-suffers-for-redacting-a-product-name.html?_r=0\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NY Times\u00a0By BARRY MEIER\u00a0 Published: November 26, 2012\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 Is covering a product\u2019s name in a public document a sign that a company has something to hide? And how should <\/p>\n<p class=\"readMore\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=1050\">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":[6],"tags":[504,505,103,138,130,248,232],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsroom","tag-defibrillators","tag-durata","tag-fda","tag-food-and-drug-administration","tag-medical-transparency","tag-riata","tag-st-jude-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050","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=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1099,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions\/1099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}