Shirts are going up paul. Has mastered on to he took part in the greatest adventure in history. Neil armstrong was his destiny starts july 20th on t. W. Artificial hips heart fellows instance are all modern medical miracles but what happens when they dont work. You feel like a guinea pig for who couldnt. Get the some of the medical products like hip implants and Insulin Pumps have to be safe and reliable for zahir and for listeners. In europe alone
medical devices generate 100000000000 euros in turn over every year. But this system is out of control and in this report well explain why. These devices can lead to serious medical complications or even death. You can see the pain in this mans face hes no longer able to work every day is an ordeal. Thomas was. His back is full of plastic strips and artificial
disk in his spine has disintegrated into lots of tiny pieces he may have sins and the pain is the worst when i lie down like when i go to bed at night is the slums just ask my wife and
effects the lawsuits started piling up people in news or paralysis. a number of patients took part in class action lawsuits against medtronic. stephanie clear had several back operations and in one the surgeon used the infused product. a subsequent operation left her paralyzed from the chest down afterwards clare s son glenn quit his job to care for his mother it s very tough to watch somebody you love going through what they go through it s very tough just being able to walk to just lie my bed can throw my legs off the bed and stand up and go very simple things but that is very important when you don t have the ability to walk anymore your life becomes your adamo.
in the u.s. the number of reported cases is nearly 4000000. these include defective heart pacemakers artificial hips and insulin pumps but the industry has managed to weaken some of those strict regulations. it was the pump that probably. he gave stephen the overdose of insulin and killed him. in the manufacturers keep tight controls on product information. german authorities don t have any idea how many devices are actually on the markets. the companies are required by law to report problems that may damage patient s health but they often don t and the companies face no penalties. companies such as medtronic have been accused of playing down possible effects with their products. tronic is the world s largest manufacturer of medical devices. last year the
company agreed to a $43000000.00 settlement with investors over allegations of improper payments to surgeons to cover up problems with a bone growth product. the company denied any wrongdoing. called thacher is an investigative journalist who s done research on possible conflict of interest in the medical research industry. he s considered an expert on medtronic. basically their business model is based on them giving money to doctors today and those doctors that put devices that people or try sell their device to other doctors we started off originally doing was looking at fraud involving these doctors that were getting huge payments to them we have actually then started learning about this product called infuse have you had spine fusion surgery since 2002 you even fuse was used as a bone graft material there were allegations that the product caused dangerous side
stephanie claire had no idea of the risks posed by infuse investigations later revealed that medtronic actively sought to play down the harmful side effects of the product. we re not just talking about trivial things we re talking about catastrophic complications to people of cancer to really be life threatening or whatever but it s very we re not part of the original company sponsored publication and we found that if you added up all the financial association of the authors for individual trials that it was in the millions but one of the lead authors of many of the paper had more than $30000000.00 devices aren t that well understood by the average person so they don t realize the corruption in the device world and how