Daily Archives Monday, November 2008

When Medical Devices are “Finished”

In last week’s Wall Street Journal, Stephen Oesterle, the vice president for medicine and technology at Medtronic was paraphrased for his startling conclusion that medical devices are “finished”. His point, “You can’t keep stuffing gizmos into people to treat end-stage disease… When biotechnology gets right, we’re finished. Because it’s restorative, not palliative as devices [...]