Government Accountability Office to Investigate Power Morcellators

An article in the Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) plans to investigate laparoscopic power morcellators. Twelve different lawmakers signed a letter to the GAO requesting that the government agency look into the devices after it was determined that they might spread uterine cancer. While the GAO agreed to undertake the investigation, a spokesperson for the agency could not give a timetable as to when the investigation was likely to start or be completed.

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