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The Money Trail: Erik Paulsen gets financial jolt from medical tech industry

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By Jon Collins | 10.21.11 | 12:31 pm

Medical device companies and executives have repaid Paulsen’s “tireless support” of their industry with hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions.

AM.MN: Who forgot Medtronic?

By Chris Steller | 09.22.09 | 8:30 am

am.mn logoDon’t let health care reform put a new tax on med-tech companies. That was the message of a letter sent last week by a bipartisan group of Minnesota members of Congress to U.S. Sen. Max Baucus, chair of the…

Patients head to D.C. to lobby for right to sue Medtronic

By Paul Schmelzer | 03.31.09 | 10:32 am

Diana LevineDiana Levine sees a double-standard in the law. As her own case proves, people can sue when they are harmed by pharmaceuticals, but individuals hurt by defective medical devices cannot. She appears in a new video that targets Twin…