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• Hidden FDA Reports Detail Harm Caused By Scores Of Medical Devices
  By Christina Jewett. Photos by Heidi de Marco. Kaiser Health News, March 7, 2019
  The Food and Drug Administration has let medical device companies file reports of injuries and malfunctions outside a widely scrutinized public database, which leave doctors and medical sleuths in the dark.
  The FDA has built and expanded a vast and hidden repository of reports on device-related injuries and malfunctions, a Kaiser Health News investigation shows. Since 2016, at least 1.1 million incidents have flowed into the internal “alternative summary reporting” repository, instead of being described individually in the widely scrutinized public database known as MAUDE, which medical experts trust to identify problems that could put patients in jeopardy.
• In FDA Meetings, "Voice" of the Patient Often Funded by Drug Companies
  David S. Hilzenrath, POGO, December 1, 2016 "... the vast majority of the groups the FDA included in the discussions—at least 39 out of 42, or 93 percent—have received funding from drug companies, POGO found. More than a third of the groups—15 that POGO has documented—have executives, directors, or other personnel from pharmaceutical or biotech companies on their governing boards."