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3. Watchdog efforts gain momentum ahead of FDA user fee vote
A consumer advocacy group warns that the FDA doesn’t have enough authority to protect patients from potentially dangerous medical devices as the Senate prepares to vote on a bill reauthorizing the fees medical device and drug makers pay for federal review.
2. Breast implants: More women affected by PIP scandal
The U.K.’s Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency warns that even more women should be considered at risk of having received substandard breast implants made by Poly Implant Prosthèse.
1. Response Biomedical launches internal review of products sold to “terrorist” countries
Response Biomedical becomes the 2nd company in recent weeks to respond to SEC concerns about med-tech sales to countries deemed “state sponsors of terrorism,” finding that a few of its sales to Iran may have fallen under export controls.
