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| ISSUE 30 - JULY 25, 2014 |
FDA Advisors Debate Ban, Black Box
And Status Quo of Power Morcellators
In a heated two-day hearing, several members of an FDA advisory panel on medical devices expressed low confidence in power morcellation as a treatment for uterine fibroids, and focused on alternative methods for performing hysterectomies and fibroid removal.
There was no formal consensus on either an outright ban on power morcellators or issuance of a “black box” warning label.
Photo: Families harmed by power morcellation pose on FDA's White Oak campus July 11, following a two-day hearing on the controversial surgical procedure
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The Numbers GYN Group: Open Surgery Would Cost More Lives than Morcellation More women would die from open surgery each year if the FDA decides to ban power morcellation, said Jubilee Brown, an associate professor at MD Anderson Cancer Center and a spokesperson of the American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists. |
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Capitol Hill Sen. Harkin Introduces NIH Funding Bill That Boosts Budget to $46.2 Billion by 2021 Sen. Tom Harkin introduced a bill that would set NIH on a path to recoup the purchasing power it has lost since 2003, and make funding biomedical research a national priority. The bill is not an appropriations bill, and does not authorize spending any money. It would, however, raise the limits set in place for NIH by the 2011 Budget Control Act and sequestration, allowing Congress to appropriate $46.2 billion by 2021—a level near where NIH funding would be, had it kept pace with inflation. |
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Appropriations Senate Committee Approves 4.5 Percent Cut to Defense Department Cancer Research Funding The Department of Defense appropriations measure for the fiscal year 2015, approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee July 17, decreased overall funding for peer-reviewed cancer research programs by 4.5 percent. |
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