RxP petitions FDA to remove device ads lacking risk info from YouTube

12/03/2008

Today the Prescription Project filed a series of citizen petitions with the FDA asking that six YouTube videos be removed immediately from the self-broadcast internet supersite because they appear to have been posted by medical device manufacturers, but do not contain "disclosures," the federally-mandated warnings or provisions required of medical device advertisements.

The videos include four posted by Abbott Laboratories about its XIENCE-V drug eluting stent, one for Medtronic’s Prestige® Cervical Disc, and one for Stryker’s Cormet™ Hip Resurfacing Technology.

To watch the videos or read the full petition, go here: http://www.prescriptionproject.org/citizen_petition

For more, check out the press release or PostScript.