title: Killer medical devices: the media versus the industry.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Engineering, University of Liverpool. dfw.ce@liverpool.ac.uk
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Williams
mesh_terms: 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