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   Chuck Darwin (cdarwin@c.im)'s status on Saturday, 13-Dec-2025 03:46:28 JST Chuck Darwin

   The Food and Drug Administration rarely uses its authority to pull dangerous medical devices off the market
   and is so poorly staffed that it’s sometimes unable to make sure companies are taking critical steps to protect patients during health emergencies,
   according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office.

   The inquiry by the congressional watchdog was requested nearly two years ago by top members of the Senate
   in the wake of an investigation about the 2021 recall of breathing machines that threatened the health of millions of Americans.

   ProPublica and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette revealed that the FDA had received hundreds of complaints over many years about the machines
   and never ordered a recall.

   Philips Respironics eventually recalled the devices, which were fitted with an industrial foam that could break down and release toxic material into the lungs of patients, including the elderly, veterans and infants.

   Philips had fielded thousands more complaints before initiating a recall and didn’t notify FDA, the news organizations found.

   Customers who relied on the continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP, machines and other devices reported respiratory illnesses,
   kidney and liver conditions, and cancer.

   In 2023, U.S. Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., urged the GAO to investigate the agency’s practices
   amid one of the most tumultuous medical device recalls in recent history.

   In a statement, Durbin called the GAO report “long overdue,”
   saying it details
   “the harms caused by drastic staffing cuts”
   and “how weakened enforcement authority has made it even more difficult for FDA to carry out critical oversight activities.”

   The probe, which began last year, found the FDA doesn’t use its authority to force manufacturers to pull defective devices from the market.

   The agency has been empowered under federal law for decades to take such action,
   🔥but it has only done so four times, the last in 1992.

   In the vast number of cases, device makers voluntarily initiated recalls
   — about 900 in each of the past five years, the GAO said.

   https://www.propublica.org/article/fda-defective-device-recalls-gao-report

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   Canadian Curmudgeon (cdncurmudgeon@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 23-Feb-2025 08:40:15 JST Canadian Curmudgeon

   https://kylekasawski.substack.com/p/danielle-smiths-corruptcare-scandal
   Danielle Smith’s CorruptCare scandal
   This could be the most incredible political corruption scandal in Canada’s history.

   In January, Danielle Smith fired the CEO and entire Board of Directors of Alberta Health Services… again.  This is the second board of directors and the fourth CEO of Alberta Health Services that Smith has fired since she became the Premier two years ago. 

   The UCP have spent untold millions of dollars in the last two years on severance packages...

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   Martijn 🇪🇺🇳🇱 (chaosmonkey@masto.ai)'s status on Sunday, 08-Dec-2024 23:23:14 JST Martijn 🇪🇺🇳🇱

   @jwildeboer @_mosso That's one way to look at it. That period was way before my time, so I have to judge it through the coloured lenses of history.

   In any case: people nowadays should be focussing on standing & working together to promote & defend "common" decency, respect and rights.

   The oligarchs will not do it for us.

   Personally I don't care if someone is "left", "right", black, purple, gay, trans whatever.. if we can have a respectful chat & work together, that's enough for me.

   #respect

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   Dr. Simon Goddek (goddeketal@bird.makeup)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 00:36:54 JST Dr. Simon Goddek

   🧵Reports suggest Biden intends to pardon Dr. Fauci, arguably one of the most notorious criminals in human history.

   In this thread, I will present evidence proving he was a gaslighter and a key player in the plandemic, fully deserving to spend the rest of his life behind bars.⬇️

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   Jonathan Schofield (urlyman@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Sep-2024 16:08:11 JST Jonathan Schofield

   in reply to

   …we can’t address climate breakdown because we have the wrong incentives.

   Caring more about something we’ve made up (money) than what we’re made of will go down in history as the biggest collective mind fk in history.

   In parallel to antibiotics that once worked becoming redundant (also in the news this morning), the worth of the vast pools of capital ‘looking for a return’ will evaporate https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/112042715978488637

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   Qasim Rashid, Esq. (qasimrashid@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Aug-2024 13:12:58 JST Qasim Rashid, Esq.

   If Kamala Harris taps Tim Walz for VP & they win, then Peggy Flanagan becomes Minnesota's Governor, & would be the first female Native American governor in US history.

   In US HISTORY!

   In 248 years we've never had a female Native American Gov. This can be a critical step forward.