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Center for Justice & Democracy
Consumer Group Releases New Study About Defective Heart Devices and Implants; Patients Arrive in DC Tomorrow
April 18th, 2009
A new study released by the national consumer rights group Center for Justice & Democracy finds that medical devices for the heart have caused thousands of needless injuries and deaths, yet patients currently have no legal recourse against reckless medical device manufacturers. The release of the report, HEART SICK - Hazardous Heart Devices and the Importance of Litigation, comes one day before dozens of patients living with faulty medical devices head to Washington to urge Congress to restore their legal rights. These rights were taken away by the U.S. Supreme Court last year in a case called Riegel vs. Medtronic. Legislation has currently been introduced in both...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2009-04-18)
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