Patients who don't feel a thing are part of Cleveland Clinic training facitlity
Robotic “patients” that bleed, give feedback, have heartbeats, and can simulate hundreds of different medical conditions and situations, are part of the The Cleveleand Clinic's newly opened, 10,000-sq-...
View ArticleOn to the House for MDUFA
Legislation to reauthorize the Medical Device User Fee Act (MDUFA) was passed last week just before the Memorial Day weekend. AdvaMed President and CEO Stephen J. Ubl issued the following statement...
View ArticleTips for summer travels with limited mobility
Traveling during the summer can be hard enough with the bigger crowds and warmer temperatures, but it can become even more challenging if you or someone you are traveling with is in a wheelchair....
View ArticleReader responds to innovation challenge
The “'Rock star' innovators challenge industry” editorial in the June Medical Design challenged medtech companies to share their thoughts and solutions for helping consumers develop a greater...
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AdvaMed's Ubl weighs in on tax reform for hearing before House before Ways...
The following is the written testimony from AdvaMed President and CEO Steve Ubl submitted to the House Ways and Means Committee for the July19th hearing on tax reform and the manufacturing sector...
View ArticleCleveland Clinic and Ohio State team up to spur innovation
Cleveland Clinic Innovations and The Ohio State University's Technology Commercialization and Knowledge Transfer Office (TCO) have entered into an alliance to accelerate and commercialize medical...
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Why NASA is so curious
After 36 weeks in space, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover landed on the Red Planet's surface early Monday morning at 1:32 Eastern Daylight Time. Curiosity carries 10 science instruments, some of them being...
View ArticleAdvaMed responds to hearing on IRS's implementation of device tax
AdvaMed President and CEO Stephen Ubl released the following statement today regarding the House Subcommittee on Oversight of the Committee on Ways and Means hearing on the medical device excise tax's...
View ArticleStudy shows medical device spending is not driving health expenditure...
An updated study released today by AdvaMed shows that spending on medical devices and in-vitro diagnostics went from $34.6 billion and just 5.3% of national health expenditures in 1989, to $156.3...
View ArticleAdvaMed comments on FDA's complex UDI proposed rule
AdvaMed today provided its comments in response to the FDA proposed rule on implementing a unique device identification (UDI) system for most medical devices distributed in the US. The rule, scheduled...
View ArticleFiscal cliff package won't diminish opposition to medical device tax, says...
In case you're wondering how the "fiscal cliff" legislation will impact efforts to repeal the medical device tax, you'll want to read the following statement issued this morning by Stephen J. Ubl,...
View ArticleThe ‘States’ of competitiveness is released by AdvaMed
AdvaMed and its State Medical Technology Alliance (SMTA) released earlier today a comprehensive state-based policy agenda aimed at preserving America’s global leadership in medical innovation....
View ArticleMedtech's 'Wild West'
Forty-thousand and counting. That’s the current number of mobile health (mHealth) apps that now exist. This according to Happtique, a New York-based developer of mHealth solutions. Cool, right? Wrong....
View ArticleUser fee access safe for now; sequester still needs to be addressed
The Senate approved this week a continuing resolution (CR) that preserves House-passed language correcting an anomaly in the current CR that would have barred FDA from spending $40 million of the fees...
View ArticleMimics for medical
When you’re in Basel, Switzerland, a must-see is the Pharmaceutical Historical Museum. Inside this old medieval house built in 1480, visitors can marvel at the antique wooden counters and shelves of...
View ArticleBRAIN is smart
The recently announced Washington initiative known as BRAIN—Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies—has its critics and supporters. I’m planted in the latter’s camp. Funding for...
View ArticleSpotlight on neurosurgery
The brain certainly has been making medical headlines a lot lately. Last month, there was much discourse over the federal government’s BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative...
View ArticleTips for summer travels with limited mobility
Traveling during the summer can be hard enough with the bigger crowds and warmer temperatures, but it can become even more challenging if you or someone you are traveling with is in a wheelchair....
View ArticleReader responds to innovation challenge
The “'Rock star' innovators challenge industry” editorial in the June Medical Design challenged medtech companies to share their thoughts and solutions for helping consumers develop a greater...
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AdvaMed's Ubl weighs in on tax reform for hearing before House before Ways...
The following is the written testimony from AdvaMed President and CEO Steve Ubl submitted to the House Ways and Means Committee for the July19th hearing on tax reform and the manufacturing sector...
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