Healthy Skepticism Library item: 18809

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Publication type: Journal Article

Dyer C
Cardiologist Wilmshurt faces further claims of libel over radio comments
BMJ 2010 Nov 5; 341:
http://www.bmj.com/content/341/bmj.c6292.extract

Abstract:

Peter Wilmshurst, the British cardiologist who is being sued for libel by US medical device manufacturer NMT Medical, faces a further libel claim by the company over remarks he made about defamation law during a BBC radio broadcast in 2009.

The original libel action against him, started in 2007 and still ongoing, was over comments he made to a US based medical website about the conduct of a clinical trial of the company’s STARFlex device. Dr Wilmshurst, a consultant cardiologist at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, was a lead investigator in the trial of the septal repair device for …