Senate Panel Details Medtronic Role In Editing Out Negative Study Findings From Journal Article
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
A Medtronic employee urged leaving out adverse event details in a medical journal article on the firm's InFuse bone graft product, according to a Senate Finance Committee investigatory report.
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