Guidant Didn’t Disclose a Flaw in Defibrillator for 3 Years

Tuesday, May 24th, 2005 at 11:09 am

"A medical device maker, the Guidant Corporation, did not tell doctors or patients for three years that a unit implanted in an estimated 24,000 people that is designed to shock a faltering heart contains a flaw that has caused a small number of those units to short-circuit and malfunction. The matter has come to light after the death of a 21-year-old college student from Minnesota, Joshua Oukrop, with a genetic heart disease." More: NYTimes.


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