{"id":824,"date":"2012-05-29T13:45:39","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T13:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctcps.org\/blog\/?p=824"},"modified":"2013-01-22T18:05:57","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T18:05:57","slug":"senate-passes-fda-safety-and-innovation-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=824","title":{"rendered":"Senate Passes FDA Safety And Innovation Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bill Makes Some Improvements to Medical Device Oversight<br \/>\nBut Important Patient Safety Protections Still Missing<br \/>\n<\/strong>WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 The Senate approved the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act today. While the legislation includes some improvements over current law, it leaves significant flaws with the FDA\u2019s current medical device oversight system in place, according to Consumers Union, the policy and advocacy arm of Consumer Reports. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumersunion.org\/pub\/core_health_care\/018416.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Makes Some Improvements to Medical Device Oversight But Important Patient Safety Protections Still Missing WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 The Senate approved the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act <\/p>\n<p class=\"readMore\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=824\">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":[289,288,103,138,287,63,286],"class_list":["post-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showcase","category-patient-safety-activism","tag-510k","tag-consumers-unions-safe-patient-project","tag-fda","tag-food-and-drug-administration","tag-medical-device-oversight","tag-medical-devices","tag-safety-and-innovation-act"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824","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=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1176,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions\/1176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}