Report Slams Response to Metal Hip Troubles (MedPageToday)
Regulators on both sides of the Atlantic were slow to inform patients and their doctors about problems with metal-on-metal hip implants and relied on industry officials and consultants in crafting their responses, the BMJ charged.
According to a report appearing online in BMJ, regulators in the U.K., the U.S., and elsewhere should have prevented "a whole class of failing hip implant [sic] from being used in hundreds of thousands of people globally."
The report is based on an investigation commissioned by the journal and the BBC's Newsn...
