{"id":760,"date":"2012-03-28T19:35:42","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T19:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctcps.org\/blog\/?p=760"},"modified":"2013-01-22T18:06:15","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T18:06:15","slug":"cr-investigates-dangerous-medical-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=760","title":{"rendered":"CR Investigates: Dangerous medical devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Tens of millions of Americans live with medical devices implanted in their bodies\u2014artificial joints, heart defibrillators, surgical mesh. And it\u2019s a safe bet that most of them assume that someone, somewhere, tested the devices for safety and effectiveness.<br \/>\nBut that is rarely the case. For most implants and other high-risk devices brought to market, manufacturers do nothing more than file some paperwork and pay the Food and Drug Administration a user fee of roughly $4,000 to start selling a product that can rack up many millions of dollars in revenue.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerreports.org\/cro\/consumer-reports-magazine\/May-2012\/medical-devices.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tens of millions of Americans live with medical devices implanted in their bodies\u2014artificial joints, heart defibrillators, surgical mesh. And it\u2019s a safe bet that most of them assume that someone, <\/p>\n<p class=\"readMore\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=760\">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":[103,99,66,102],"class_list":["post-760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showcase","category-patient-safety-activism","tag-fda","tag-health-care-reform","tag-medical-implants","tag-unsafe-medical-devices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760","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=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1197,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions\/1197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}