Device approval exposes political pressure on FDA
Friday, September 25, 2009 - 15:21
in Health & Medicine
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration has taken the unprecedented step of acknowledging that it buckled to "extreme" pressure from Capitol Hill in its approval of a knee repair device last year. While FDA officials call the situation an anomaly, experts said Friday there is nothing to stop similar political lobbying from influencing future decisions....