Guidant
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Guidant
The Justice Department is investigating whether the country's three big makers of implanted heart devices, Medtronic, Guidant and St. Jude Medical, used illegal inducements to get doctors to use their products. That investigation began in October, soon after an article in The New York Times reported that internal Guidant e-mail messages suggested that a product evaluation survey run by that company, in which doctors were paid $1,000 each to participate, was actually an effort to improve device sales.