Tag: Medical Devices

From The Lown Institute: "By the time I finished watching The Bleeding Edge, a new documentary about the medical device industry and regulation, I never...

From Forbes: "A new Netflix documentary — The Bleeding Edge — highlights a wide range of systemic flaws in the FDA’s regulation of medical devices. As always,...

From The Lown Institute: New investigations and research are beginning to show the dangerous consequences resulting from the FDA's lack of oversight of medical devices. "It sounds crazy...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is attempting to reclassify the electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) device for use in treating severe depression (MDE) or bipolar “disorder” (BPD). The device is currently a class III device and the proposal is to make it a class II device.