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Philips Kept Warnings About Dangerous CPAP Machines Secret While Profits Soared. (www.propublica.org)

submitted 1 year ago by TokyoMonsterTrucker@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/news@beehaw.org

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Exhibit #482,683 on why capitalism and medicine are inevitably a horrible combination.

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[–] ConstableJelly@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

Not to mention

The company acknowledged that the foam it had chosen could crumble in heat and humidity and send potentially “toxic and carcinogenic” material into the noses, mouths, throats and lungs of users.

Not only was the foam dysfunctional, the material was fucking carcinogenic.