
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, October 16, 1993                   TAG: 9310160154
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A10   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Newsday
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

HEART CATHETER MAKER TO PAY $61 MILLION FINE

In a case involving greed, death, human "guinea pigs" and the largest fine ever collected by the Food and Drug Administration, a New Jersey company Friday agreed to pay a $61 million fine and plead guilty to knowingly selling faulty heart catheters from 1988 to 1990.

The catheters, manufactured by C.R. Bard Inc. of Murray Hill, N.J., were taken off the market in 1990 - but not before they had injured dozens of patients and killed at least one, FDA officials said Friday.

Memo: longer version ran in the New River edition.

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