Time Magazine
June 23, 2003
Section: Notebook

Numbers

$92.4 million Penalties levied against Guidant's Endovascular Technologies for hiding flaws in a device it makes to treat weak arteries without surgery; it's largest ever for a medical-technology firm

2,682 Number of complaints about the device that Endovascular concealed from the government

12 Number of deaths that resulted from the device's malfunction