Policy & Industry

How Do Unapproved Drugs Make it to Market?

It may come as a surprise that some of the drugs your doctor can prescribe have not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). That means that they haven’t been evaluated for safety or efficacy, and there isn’t …

Coming Soon? The 100-Million-Dollar Robotic Arm

Within six months the military plans to begin implanting microchips on the surface of patients’ brains to study a prosthetic robotic arm controlled by the user’s thoughts, via the chip. The $100 million arm, which was developed …

FDA Approves the First Ever MRI-Safe Pacemaker

On Tuesday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first pacemaker designed to be used safely during magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans. The device, the Revo MRI SureScan Pacing System by Medtronic, was first …

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