Show 1123: What Are the Unexpected Dangers of Medical Devices?

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Medical devices are far more common than you might imagine. One American in ten has an implanted defibrillator, pacemaker, artificial hip or knee joint, surgical mesh or other device. How rigorously are such devices tested before they can be used? How Does the FDA Regulate Medical Devices? You would imagine that the Food and Drug […]

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Joe Grady. I'm Terry Grady.
0:03.3	Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy, where we bring you the stories behind the
0:08.8	health headlines. This podcast is brought to you by Reddex Industries, makers of utterly smooth body cream.
0:16.0	800, 345, 7339 on the web at utter cream.com.
0:40.0	One in ten Americans has a medical device in their body, from stents to artificial joints, surgical mesh to birth control devices. This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Grayden.
0:43.7	People trust the FDA to make sure drugs are safe and effective.
0:54.0	They assume the agency is doing the same careful job when it comes to regulating medical devices.
1:00.0	Are they mistaken?
1:01.0	Scandals about joint replacement surgical mesh and birth control
1:04.9	devices have not captured public concern. That's largely because patients are
1:09.6	told that the latest and greatest equipment is better and safer. Is that true?
1:14.7	Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, we get the low down on how the FDA has stumbled in its
1:19.8	regulation of medical devices.
1:27.0	First the news.
1:34.0	In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines, Air pollution is harmful to health with bad effects on the lungs, heart, and cardiovascular system.
1:40.0	But even if you can't completely avoid air pollution, you can soften its impact.
1:45.0	Data from the National Institutes of Health, American Association of Retired Persons Diet and Health Study,
1:52.0	show that people who follow a Mediterranean-style eating
1:55.4	pattern with lots of vegetables, fruits, and whole grains are less vulnerable to
2:00.0	the toll of air pollution. The study included nearly 550,000 individuals with an average age of 62 at the
2:07.6	outset.
2:08.6	It tracked their health for 17 years, during which time more than 126,000 of them died.
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