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By Judy Wang
This post is a frank call to action. Massachusetts is one of the few remaining states in the country that does not provide coverage for telemedicine services through its Medicaid program, and credentialing and reimbursement issues have helped the expansion of telehealth programs at Boston Children’s Hospital and beyond.
By MassDevice
MiMedx (NSDQ:MDXG) said it received a subpoena over sales and marketing of its regenerative biomaterial products and bioimplants made from human amniotic membrane. The Georgia company also disclosed a lawsuit against a rival it accuses of unfair business practices and a beef with the FDA over proposed new regulations. First, the civil subpoena: MiMedx said it […]
By Erin Horan
Physicians often dream of creating new devices to help their patients, but few are able to bring a device to market. At a panel discussion earlier this month at Boston Children’s Hospital, an entrepreneur, a venture capitalist and medical device industry experts offered advice for inventors who want to make their medical device a commercial reality. Here’s some of what they had to say.
By Owen Faris, Ph.D., and Jeffrey Shuren, M.D., J.D.
At the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), clinical trials are the foundation for our decisions to approve the most important medical devices—products that have the potential to save or sustain life, but that also present the greatest risk to patients.
By Tom Ulrich
By Tom Ulrich
You can’t advance the care of a disease that you can’t study. And for 40 years, that was the case with a rare, uniformly fatal pediatric brain tumor called diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, or DIPG.
By Tom Ulrich
A Bluetooth pacifier that takes a baby’s temperature. An iPhone otoscope. A smart yoga mat. And health & fitness trackers out the wazoo. That’s just a small sampling of the health-related technologies showcased at last week’s Consumer Electronics Show (or CES).
DNA sequences were once thought to be the same in every cell, but the story is now known to be more complicated than that. The brain is a case in point: Mutations can arise at different times in brain development and affect only a percentage of neurons, forming a mosaic pattern.