Is big Brother lurking at the US Food and Drug Administration? Six scientists and doctors are now suing the FDA for intercepting their private emails and installing spyware on their computers, after they blew the whistle on problems with the approval of medical devices. In 2008, four of the six plaintiffs told the US Congress that they had been pressured by FDA managers to alter their conclusions that computer-aided detection devices, used to interpret mammograms and other radiological scans, were not effective.
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