{"id":707,"date":"2012-02-20T04:20:54","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T04:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctcps.org\/blog\/?p=707"},"modified":"2013-01-22T18:06:45","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T18:06:45","slug":"substantially-unsafe-medical-devices-pose-great-threat-to-patients-safeguards-must-be-strengthened-not-weakened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=707","title":{"rendered":"Substantially Unsafe &#8211; Medical Devices Pose Great Threat to Patients; safeguards Must be Strengthened, Not Weakened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>February 2012\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizen.org\">www.citizen.org<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 R<span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">egulation of medical devices\u2014a $350 billion industry that includes such products as heart and brain stents, artificial hips and implantable defibrillators\u2014is at a crossroads. With a major reauthorization bill up for debate, members of Congress already have introduced 14 bills <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">that aim to accelerate devices\u2019 path to the market, often by weakening measures intended to ensure patient safety.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizen.org\/documents\/substantially-unsafe-medical-device-report.pdf\">Read more<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 2012\u00a0 www.citizen.org\u00a0\u00a0 Regulation of medical devices\u2014a $350 billion industry that includes such products as heart and brain stents, artificial hips and implantable defibrillators\u2014is at a crossroads. With a major <\/p>\n<p class=\"readMore\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=707\">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":[6,59],"tags":[103,138,99,139,140,63],"class_list":["post-707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsroom","category-patient-safety-activism","tag-fda","tag-food-and-drug-administration","tag-health-care-reform","tag-medical-device-amendments-of-1976","tag-medical-device-user-fee-act-mdufa","tag-medical-devices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707","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=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1216,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions\/1216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}