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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