Oddbean

To quiet the machines, Philips packed their CPAP devices with foam. The foam broke down over time sending potentially “toxic & carcinogenic” material into the throats and lungs of users. “Reports detailed nearly 2,000 cases of cancer, 600 liver & kidney illnesses & 17,000 respiratory ailments.” Philips withheld > 3,700 complaints over 11 years from the FDA, while waging aggressive marketing campaigns to sell more machines. “There were people who knew and knew for a long said time,” said a. 1/2 https://cdn.masto.host/medmastodoncom/media_attachments/files/111/140/389/676/358/323/original/9e7ea6e61863028e.jpeg

former compliance supervisor. “If you shoot tiny pingpongs down airways to obstruct the lungs, you can imagine the potential consequences,” said Dr. Robert Lowe. #cpap #fraud #medicine https://www.propublica.org/article/philips-kept-warnings-about-dangerous-cpaps-secret-profits-soared

LB: I had one of those CPAP machines. Called up the NHS respiratory clinic to which I was attached and asked what their plans were. The answer I got was along the lines of “There’s no actual problem, it’s just that those Americans are very litigious. If there was a problem, we’d have replaced your machine already”. This didn’t calm my worries. A month later I got a letter informing me that they’d be replacing my machine. @56c9472d