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MEDICARE CHALLENGED ON CATHETERS
February 20, 2006
The lives of tens of thousands of disabled people depend on taking a narrow
tube in hand and threading it into their bladder to drain urine. Because urinary
catheters invade the body, the Food and Drug Administration requires that they
be manufactured and packaged under the highest standards of sterility.
The
Arizona Republic