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Heart doctors more likely to implant devices from manufacturers that pay them, new study finds
Doctors have long defended the large payments many receive from drug and device companies as just compensation for advising on products, and for sharing what they know with colleagues at conferences. Patient care decisions, they maintain, are not influenced.  But an authoritative new study of patients who received common types of implants used to keep hearts beating in rhythm substantially challenges this claim.  In a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, a Yale University-led research team found that cardiologists were between two and 11 times more likely to implant a defibrillator made by the device company that paid them the most, researchers found. And for t

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