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Executives of a small medical-device company donated $50,000 in the 2008 election campaign to New Jersey Democrats who went to bat for the company’s knee implant at the Food and Drug Administration, according to campaign donation records. Three top executives of ReGen Biologics Inc., based in Hackensack, N.J., began the donations in the fall of […]

Washington Post. April 5, 2009. A funeral home that helps handle veterans awaiting burial at Arlington National Cemetery left corpses in an unrefrigerated garage, hallways and on makeshift gurneys, according to a former embalmer who has given his photographs and notes to authorities, The Washington Post reported Sunday. “It was disturbing and disrespectful and unethical,” […]

Washington Post. April 5, 2009. Ronald Federici’s father, a retired Army colonel, had just died, and Federici wanted to escort his body to Demaine Funeral Home in Alexandria. But the driver who came to pick up the remains at the hospital said he wasn’t going to Demaine, he was going to some other place. Ronald […]

Scientists and doctors with the FDA have sent a strongly worded letter to President Barack Obama calling for “sweeping measures are needed to end the systemic corruption and wrongdoing that permeates all levels of FDA and has plagued the Agency far too long.” Excerpt of letter send by FDA staff. The letter, released in conjunction with a […]