I have to admit that at times I feel like a broken record, repeatedly pointing out the fact that medical technologies — medical devices in particular — are frequently found to be providing clinical solutions to problems that neither drug companies nor biotech companies are able to achieve. It’s a sort of yankee ingenuity made [...]
(From January 2007 MedMarkets; subscribers only)
MedMarket Outlook: Cardiovascular Disease Outlook
Cardiovascular Disease continues to represent a major source of morbidity and mortality globally, as illustrated in recent CDC data on the U.S. The prevalence of heart disease and its direct involvement in 232,000 deaths in 2003 (see Exhibit 1, below), combined with de facto growth in [...]
(Re-posted to a new blog link, still a Wordpress blog, but one that suits my needs a bit better.)
My advanced medical technologies blog has moved here!
This is the new home of the “advanced medical technologies” blog by me, Patrick Driscoll, president and founder of MedMarket Diligence. You may have seen me at my old digs, [...]
From the “Letter from the Editor” (Dona Watson) in the January 2007 MedMarkets:
The January 2007 issue of MedMarkets (subscribers: PDF or HTML) includes an article detailing new controversies in the battle for which patients do or do not need an ICD (see “Drivers”). On one hand, researchers have found that up to one-third of ICD [...]
