October 1, 2014 Good morning. Thank you for the opportunity to speak today. My name is Dr. Laurén Doamekpor, and I am a senior fellow at the Cancer Prevention and Treatment Fund. Our research center scrutinizes scientific and medical data and provides objective health information to patients, providers and policy makers. We do not accept […]
The Wall Street Journal. The majority of moderate- to high-risk medical devices approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration lack publicly available scientific evidence to verify their safety and effectiveness despite requirements in the law, according to a study released Monday.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves about 400 implanted medical devices each year through an abbreviated process called the 510(k) process, which only rarely requires clinical trials (studies of patients).
Should you believe the internet warnings that wearing a bra, or wearing an underwire bra, causes breast cancer?
September 4, 2014. Thank you for the opportunity to speak today on behalf of the Cancer Prevention and Treatment Fund. My name is Dr. Anna Mazzucco, and after completing my Ph.D. in Cell and Developmental Biology from Harvard Medical School I conducted research at the National Cancer Institute. I bring those perspectives today.