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4 Apr 2010, 11:43 am by Marcia Oddi
Barry Meier reported Saturday in the NY Times in a lengthy story that begins:When a car breaks, a computer fails... [read post]
19 May 2009, 5:36 am
In today’s New York Times, reporters Barry Meier and Duff Wilson provide an update on one of the two fraudulent physicians discussed in my last post, Dr. [read post]
27 Mar 2009, 2:46 am
  [www.nytimes.com]       An Overseer of Trials in Medicine Draws Fire By BARRY MEIER Published: March 27, 2009 Coast Independent Review Board was recently snared when undercover federal investigators created a sham medical study to see how closely companies evaluate the studies they are paid to review. [read post]
23 Mar 2009, 11:50 am
Newly Released FDA Report Indicates Medtronic Had First Reports Of Lead Wire Problems In Late 2004 (Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjuryWatch.com) A March 14, 2009 New York Times (NYT) article, "Medtronic Links Device for Heart to 13 Deaths", by reporter Barry Meier gave us the latest developments regarding the problems that gave rise to the October 2007 recall of Sprint Fidelis lead wires used in defibrillators. [read post]
15 Mar 2009, 2:32 pm
In a recent NY Times article, reporter Barry Meier  discussed Medtronic’s acknowledgment  that some 13 deaths have been attributed to  malfunctions of a  device it  manufactured –a small cable, known as the Sprint Fidelis,  that connects an implanted defibrillator to the patient’s heart. [read post]
14 Mar 2009, 6:55 am
Barry Meier of the New York Times reports that along with roughly 13 fatalities, the FDA has received... [read post]
24 Feb 2009, 1:18 pm
  In his February 19, 2009  article, "Lawmakers Seek to Return Right to Sue Device Makers", NYT reporter Barry Meier informed us that: Two House Democrats, Henry A. [read post]
21 Feb 2009, 2:16 pm
Patients who were injured by medical devices are in a strangely similar predicament, as observed in yesterday's New York Times article by Barry Meier entitled "Lawmakers Seek To Return Right To Sue Device Makers. [read post]
20 Feb 2009, 4:48 am
  The most optimistic news comes from the front of its Business Day section, in which Barry Meier reports that there is a movement afoot, spearheaded by House Democrats Henry Waxman, of California, and Frank Pallone, Jr., of New Jersey, to restore the right of patients to sue medical device manufacturers, and nullify the federal preemption doctrine that has long protected the same manufacturers from liability. [read post]
24 Jan 2009, 10:34 am
WASHINGTON SHINES LIGHT ON COZINESS BETWEEN INDUSTRY AND PHYSICIANS-Barry Meier reports in today’s NY Times  that concerns about conflicts of interest between drug and device manufacturers on the one hand,  and doctors and hospitals on the other, have reached our nation’s capital. [read post]
9 Oct 2008, 11:08 am
The Federal Reserve Board said Wednesday that it would provide up to $37.8 billion to the embattled insurer the American International Group to help it deal with a rapidly dwindling supply of cash, The New York Times’s Barry Meier and Marry Williams Walsh reported. [read post]
29 Sep 2008, 12:05 pm
Getting Congress to agree on a $700 billion financial bailout package might have seemed difficult, but the really hard work is only about to start, The New York Times’s Barry Meier writes. [read post]
28 Dec 2007, 4:28 am
The Times' Barry Meier, sharing a byline with product safety and homeland security reporter Eric Lipton, delivers a devastating portrait of Giuliani as hired gun in this contribution to the Times' series The Long Run, profiling presidential candidates. [read post]
25 Oct 2007, 3:05 am
I love how Barry Meier tells this story of a whistleblower whose fraud accusations against his employer have now been turned against him. [read post]
18 Sep 2007, 11:12 am
" Barry Meier of the New York Times reports that neither Lerach nor his defense attorney, John Keker, returned telephone calls, and that the U.S. [read post]
21 May 2007, 10:01 pm
Source:  "Narcotic Maker Guilty of Deceit Over Marketing" by Barry Meier, published in The New York Times. [read post]