FDA Should Use “Bully Pulpit” To Lower MRI Accident Rate, Workshop Goers Say
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
While overseeing MRI operators is outside FDA's purview, participants at an FDA workshop agreed that the agency should use its “bully pulpit” to at least encourage safer use of magnetic resonance imaging equipment.
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