Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Doctors didn't disclose spine product cancer risk in journal

Doctors didn't disclose spine product cancer risk in journal
Spine-product paper omitted key data
http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/watchdogreports/doctors-didnt-disclose-spine-product-cancer-risk-in-journal-132391068.html

"Doctors paid millions of dollars by Medtronic failed to identify a significant cancer risk with the company's spine surgery product in a 2009 paper about results of a large clinical trial.

The surgeons left out important data and claimed there was no significant link between the product and cancer."

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