The Safe Patient Project is a Consumers Union campaign focused on eliminating medical harm, improving FDA oversight of prescription drugs and promoting disclosure laws that give information to consumers about health care safety and quality.
Patient with recalled defibrillator lead decides he wants to have his leads removed to avoid the device failing. The removal surgery can be damaging as well, but a growing number of patients are making the difficult decision to remove the leads. 79,000 U.S. patients are implanted with the troubled Riata defibrillator lead.
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Consumers Union’s Safe Patient Project will host its second Twitter chat on Thursday, May 17 at 1pm EST to debunk industry claims about the FDA’s device approval process and explain what consumers really need to know about the medical device user fee bills. In the wake of several high profile, device-related public health disasters–such as Continue Reading
10 procedures to think twice about during your pregnancy
American Pain Foundation shuts down as senators probe painkiller industry.
Consumers Union urges House Energy & Commerce Health subcommittee to keep consumer safety issues in mind as they are set to mark-up the Medical Device User Fee reauthorization bill.
New SHEA study finds a strong link between healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and patient readmission after an initial hospital stay.
Patient Guides on Healthcare-Associated Infections from the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. Spanish guides available.
“There’s a bipartisan push to get the FDA bill — negotiated with the medical device and pharmaceutical industries — enacted ahead of the Supreme Court ruling on the health reform law expected in June, which could quickly pull a relatively bipartisan health-related bill into a swamp of political grandstanding.”
Lawmakers are motivated to maintain bipartisan momentum on FDA user fee bills. A U.S. House version of a bill reauthorizing FDA user fees for medical devices and pharmaceuticals, posted just before the weekend, will head to the House Energy & Commerce Subcommittee tomorrow for an open markup session.
Besides access to more data, patients will get quicker response to complaints. A bill that pushes the state medical board for more accountability and transparency is signed into law.
