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Reviewing Abbott Heart Device Panel and Financial Ties with Company
By David Hilzenrath & Holly K. Hacker – When the FDA recently convened a committee of advisers to assess a cardiac device made by Abbott, the agency didn’t disclose that most of them had received payments from the company or conducted research it had funded — information readily available in a federal database.