Illinois Personal Injury Lawyer Blog
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 malfunctions and injuries related to staplers were hidden from the public in private internal FDA databases. In fact, in 2016 alone, while the FDA’s public database received less than 100 stapler malfunction reports, their hidden database received about 10,000 reports.