Revealed: faulty medical implants harm patients around world

Patients around the world are suffering pain and many have died as a result of faulty medical devices that have been allowed on to the market by a system dogged by poor regulation, lax rules on testing and a lack of transparency, an investigation has found.In the UK alone, regulators received 62,000 “adverse incident” reports linked to medical devices between 2015 and 2018.In the US, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has collected 5.4m “adverse event” reports over th