View From The Med Week 34 Now Online

Meandering through the fields of news items that have sprung up this week we pause for reflection on whether product recalls and withdrawals are telling us products are getting to market too easily. We conclude they’re probably not, but we do think we need a bit more regulatory diligence.

Speeding up adoption of new technology is widely regarded as desirable, but how desirable is it if the supporting evidence is hard to come by or questionable? Then again, how many new device  technologies have arrived at market only to be gigantically problematic? We decide we don’t know the answer, but we do know that we’d like to see the clinical evidence for ourselves before we get too far down the tracks.

This week’s View From The Med is available for your perusal right now, here.

published: August 24, 2012 in: medlatest Editorial

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