When the Food and Drug Administration recently convened a committee of advisers to assess a cardiac device made by Abbott , the agency didn’t disclose that most of them had received payments from the company or conducted research it had funded — information readily available in a federal database. One member of the FDA advisory committee was linked to hundreds of payments from Abbott totaling almost $200,000, according to a database maintained by the Department of Health and Human Services.
Another was connected to 100 payments totaling about $100,000 and conducted research supported by about $50,000 from Abbott. A third member of the committee worked on research supported by more than $180,000 from the company. The government database, called “Open Payments,” records financial relationships between doctors and certain other health care providers and the makers of drugs and medical device
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