Medtronic MiniMed Insulin Pump: “MaxiRisk”

Washington, DC: While most Americans with type 1 or type 2 diabetes can control their condition with medication, those with more serious and debilitating forms of diabetes require constant monitoring, together with regular infusions of insulin to not only keep their blood glucose at appropriate levels, but to also keep them alive. Such functions, in recent years, have increasingly fallen within the purview of medical devices designed to monitor and infuse as needed, silently and automatically. However, the presence of a Medtronic lawsuit – two, in fact – suggests underlying problems that allegedly are costing people their lives