From Dr. Oz to heart valves: A tiny device charted a contentious path through the FDA
David Hilzenrath, Holly K. Hacker | KFF Health News (TNS)
In 2013, the FDA approved an implantable device to treat leaky heart valves. Among its inventors was Mehmet Oz, the former television personality and former U.S. Senate candidate widely known as “Dr. Oz.”
In online videos, Oz has called the process that brought the MitraClip device to market an example of American medicine firing “on all cylinders,” and he has compared it to “landing a man on the moon.”
MitraClip was...
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