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Bad news for the safety of cochlear implants

  • 20-04-2013 06:43PM
    #1
    serenity79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18 ✭


    An American jury has awarded $7.25 million to an eleven-year old girl for damages, which were caused by her defective cochlear implant. "She lived in a cold, dark, deaf world while Advanced Bionics shareholders enjoyed millions of dollars in sales-based bonuses," her lawyers said in a pretrial brief.

    Unfortunately, cochlear implant sometimes can do more serious harm than good, so that it cannot be for everyone.

    Please click here to read about the story of that girl's severe shocks.
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  • #2
    zbluebirdz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 270 ✭✭zbluebirdz


    serenity79 wrote: »
    ...

    Unfortunately, cochlear implant sometimes can do more serious harm than good, so that it cannot be for everyone.

    ...

    But the girl had the faulty implant replaced with a different make/model and doesn't appear to have any issues with the new implant.


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