FDA Wrestles With Social Media At Patient Engagement Meeting
Executive Summary
US FDA device center's new Patient Engagement Advisory Committee held its second meeting on Nov. 15, focusing on the potential for social media and other patient-generated information to be a source of post-market medical device data.
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