Nany Maree
Twelve spinal cord stimulators cancelled. Conditions slapped on fifty-two more. Ninety-one under review.
That's the TGA, and it comes after eighteen devices got conditions in January. Its database holds about 2,000 reports since 2012. Among 6,000 private health fund patients, about 41 per cent needed another procedure within three years. Teresa Burbery, paralysed after her 2021 operation, said there was no fine print warning her. The manufacturer Medtronic said it had found no new safety concerns.
No fine print. That's the line that stopped me.
I live in the fine print, love. When there isn't any, I want to know who signed off and what they read first. Good on the TGA for acting. Now, why did it take this long?
Talk to your GP or health professional about your own body.
Source: ABC News, 2024-08-19
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