REVIEWERS CITE FLAWS AT GUIDANT

An expert panel commissioned last summer by the Guidant Corporation to review its handling of heart device flaws said yesterday that the company had systematically failed to fully assess patient safety in deciding whether to publicize product failures.

The New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/21/business/21guidant.html?_r=1&oref=slogin)