The Senate letter to Medtronic - June 21, 2011
Senators Look Into Medtronic, Doctors (WSJ Blog)
The Senate Finance Committee is investigating whether surgeons who received large sums of money from medical-device giant Medtronic Inc. for consulting and other work failed to note complications associated with a Medtronic bone-growth protein that has become widely used in spinal surgery.
Senators Seek Information on Side Effects of Medtronic Bone-Growth Product (NYTimes)
Two senators on Tuesday expanded an investigation of the medical device maker Medtronic, demanding that the company turn over records involving millions of dollars in payments to researchers and internal correspondence with doctors who had published its research on a controversial bone-growth product.
Senators Investigate Medtronic Spine Device (MedPageToday)
A U.S. Senate committee has launched an investigation into reports that doctors with financial ties to the medical device company Medtronic were aware of potentially serious complications with a spine surgery product made by the company yet failed to reveal those problems in published journal articlesCiting news articles based on a Milwaukee Journal Sentine...
