Medtronic Giving Yale Grant to Review Bone Growth Data (written by Barry Meier @ NY Times Health)
Facing intensifying scrutiny over one of its bone growth products, Medtronic announced Wednesday that it was giving a $2.5 million grant to Yale to oversee a complete review of the study data that examined the product’s safety and effectiveness.
In June, a medical journal charged that researchers sponsored by Medtronic had generated misleading studies about the product, called Infuse, that overstated its benefits and asserted that it did not pose risks.
Infuse is a bioengineered materia...
