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Rep. Levin blasts House GOP for ‘increasingly undisguised’ effort to sabotage job growth
Rep. Sander Levin (D-MI) on Thursday blasted Republicans for failing to act on the transportation funding bill while touting the repeal of the medical device tax as a “jobs bill.” “This is further evidence of what is really going on here in this establishment,” he said on the House floor.…
FDA lax on monitoring of medical implants
By Lena Groeger ProPublica Each prescription drug you take has a unique code that the government can use to track problems. But artificial hips and pacemakers? They are implanted without identification, along with many other medical devices. In fact, the FDA doesn’t know how many devices are implanted into patients…
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