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Archive Home > 2011 > June > 29 > Docs suspected of fudging data on spinal product for financial gain

Docs suspected of fudging data on spinal product for financial gain

By John Fauber / The Bulletin
June 29, 2011

MILWAUKEE — Enthusiasm bubbled over in 1999 as a group of surgeons from around the country began to implant a new spinal fusion product in patients that initially appeared to safely grow bone and help fuse vertebrae.

Then something bad happened.

Only a few months into one of the first clinical....

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