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.
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Consumers demand safer medical devices
To make sure elected officials hear from Americans who’ve been harmed by outdated safety laws, Consumers Union’s Safe Patient Project brought 10 activists from seven states to Washington D.C. to share their medical device experiences and demand improvements. And it had a huge impact!
Categories: Drugs & Medical Devices, Medical Device Safety
Tags: MDUFA, medical device
Institute of Medicine report scrutinizes medical device approval process
The IOM released a report last week reviewing the 510(k) medical device approval process. The report finds that the current FDA process “lacks the legal basis to be a reliable premarket screen of the safety and effectiveness” of devices.
Categories: Medical Device Safety
Tags: FDA, medical device, recall
Recall Announcement Affects Consumers Union Employee
Medical recalls can indicate potential risk of serious injury or death to patients, but they often go unnoticed.
Categories: Drugs & Medical Devices
Tags: C. diff, CDC, FDA, medical device, Patient Safety Day, recall, video
Have an opinion on off-label drug use information? Take this survey!
Survey about whether drug companies should hand out off-label drug studies to doctors.
Categories: Drugs & Medical Devices
Tags: FDA, medical device, Pharma, RFO
New bill introduced in Senate: Drug co’s must report how much they pay docs
Last week Senator Grassley of Iowa introduced The Physician Payments Sunshine Act in the Senate that would require drug companies to…
Categories: Uncategorized
Tags: medical device, Pharma, public reporting
Conflict of Interest
Doctors with Drug Ties Chosen for Avandia Panel
Categories: Drugs & Medical Devices
Tags: FDA, flu, JAMA, medical device, Pharma, Vioxx
House subcommittee to vote on drug safety proposals today..
And a full committee vote on Rep. Pallone’s proposal Thursday. We should know by tonight how it went.
Categories: Drugs & Medical Devices
Tags: FDA, Ketek, medical device, Vioxx
Survey finds close ties between drug companies and patient groups
The New Scientist’s recent survey describes how some patient groups get substantial funding from drug companies.
Categories: Drugs & Medical Devices
Tags: FDA, ICU, medical device, Pfizer
Another prestigious institution bans Pharma swag
In what the NY Times calls “a growing movement among academic institutions,” Stanford University Medical Center will ban gifts — even small ones like pens — from pharma sales reps to physicians who work there.
Categories: Uncategorized
Tags: flu, JAMA, medical device, Patient Safety Day, recall
