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From Dr. Oz to Heart Valves: A Tiny Device Charted a Contentious Path Through the FDA - KFF Health News

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David Hilzenrath and Holly K. Hacker In 2013, the FDA approved an implantable device to treat leaky heart valves. Among its inventors was Mehmet Oz, the former television personality and former U.S. Senate candidate widely known as “Dr. Oz.” In online videos, Oz has called the process that brought the MitraClip device to market an example of American medicine firing “on all cylinders,” and he has compared it to…

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