Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Surgeons Who Tested Medtronic's Infuse Failed to Report Problems - WSJ.com

Surgeons Who Tested Medtronic's Infuse Failed to Report Problems - WSJ.com: "Surgeons who conducted clinical trials to test a Medtronic Inc. bone-growth protein widely used in spine surgery didn't report serious complications that arose in those trials in their research papers, a new study says.
Over the past decade, 15 of those surgeons have collectively received at least $62 million from the medical-device giant for unrelated work, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of Medtronic documents and of recent disclosures made on the company's website."