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The FDA announced recently that they plan to review and address the safety of surgical staplers. Surgical staplers are specialized devices used in surgery to close wounds or connect tissue, instead of using traditional sutures. The FDA‘s decision comes after a recent Kaiser News Health Report revealed that thousands of…

Apparently, once a medical device gets approved by the FDA to go on the market, it is almost impossible to take it back off, even if the device has proven to be dangerous or even deadly, according to Michael Carome from the public watchdog group Public Citizen. In fact, the…