Killer medical devices: the media versus the industry.
Are medical products killer devices or life-improving instruments? This issue is being fought out in the general media today. The first article in a new series of the Material Matters column discusses this unwelcome phenomenon and examines the arguments.
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Department of Clinical Engineering, University of Liverpool. dfw.ce@liverpool.ac.uk
D004869:Equipment Safety; D004864:Equipment and Supplies / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D007221:Industry; D008402:Mass Media; D018570:Risk Assessment; D006113:United Kingdom