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Schultz’ Controversial Approval Of Cyberonics Device Has Little Precedent

This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet

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CDRH Director Dan Schultz's decision to override device and drug center review staff to approve Cyberonics' VNS Therapy neurostimulation device for treatment-resistant depression has scant precedent in recent history. All the same, he appears to have followed established FDA procedures

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