St. Jude Medical and Medtronic and the medical devices they make are at the center of a government proposal urging comparative studies of medical devices as well as drugs. The two companies’ devices that rely on heart-arrhythmia drugs head the list prepared by the federal Institute of Medicine as ripe for comparison studies. Also high on the IOM list are relatively expensive diagnostic products made by Becton, Dickinson and Cepheid for testing antibiotic-resistant staph germs, which the study notes face opposition by some physicians who say they can do the same work using low-tech, anti-infection practices. (Click here for more)
“Marshalling Evidence For What Makes Sense In Health Care” – Barrons (7/6/09)
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