Patient Safety Advocate Raises Alarm Over HHS/FDA Push That Could Exempt 80+ Devices From Regulation
Executive Summary
National Center for Health Research president Diana Zuckerman is concerned about a new joint notice from the US HHS and the FDA designed to deregulate a slew of devices and tests.
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