{"id":1414,"date":"2010-01-24T17:05:01","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T22:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/is-the-fda-too-lax\/"},"modified":"2013-07-02T09:51:18","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T13:51:18","slug":"is-the-fda-too-lax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2010\/01\/24\/is-the-fda-too-lax\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the FDA too Lax?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jwatch.org\/jc201001200000002\">\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jwatch.org\/jc201001200000002\">recent review<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/cardioexchange.org\/jwatch\/cardiology\/content\/full\/2010\/120\/2\">\u00a0<\/a>reports that cardiovascular devices are not subjected to nearly the same level of scrutiny as drugs, raising concern about the true safety and efficacy of approved new technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think this has placed patients at risk, or is it a welcome\u00a0difference\u00a0from the lengthy and onerous approval process that delays the implementation of potentially highly effective treatments?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0recent review\u00a0reports that cardiovascular devices are not subjected to nearly the same level of scrutiny as drugs, raising concern about the true safety and efficacy of approved new technologies. Do you think this has placed patients at risk, or is it a welcome\u00a0difference\u00a0from the lengthy and onerous approval process that delays the implementation of potentially [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}