Woman discovers TGA-approved implant was not tested by the regulator in Australia | 60 Minutes

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Years after Vicki Kelly had SynchroMed 2 implanted to manage chronic back pain, doctors believe it caused a blood clot that led to spinal cord stroke. Now the 69-year-old grandmother is paralysed from the waist down. She then discovered the implant that she had relied on was never independently tested by Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration.

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