GUIDANT SWEATED DEVICE WOES

As Guidant Corp. came under scrutiny last spring for not telling doctors about potentially fatal defects in its heart devices, the company's public message was upbeat and insistent: Concerns about the safety of its products were overblown, it said, and perhaps even irresponsible.

The Indianapolis Star (http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060228/BUSINESS/602280404)