A recent report by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) finds that over the last two decades, the number of U.S. hospital emergency departments (ED) in urban areas has declined by about 27 percent: In 1990, the nation had about 2,446 EDs in non-rural areas; today there are 1,779.
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What Medical/Healthcare Devices Can Learn from the Consumer Electronic Trends
March 10, 2011
What can the medical device industry predict for its own future? Perhaps the clues come from the lead provided by another industry altogether.
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The Benefits of Being Oleophobic
August 30, 2010
Mechanical Engineer Michael Salame describes the property of oleophobia and its value in medical devices.
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Report from FDA Workshop on Home Medical Devices
June 25, 2010
Meredith DeZutter reports on a recent visit to an FDA workshop on Home Medical Devices.
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