Advancing Health Equity for Medical Devices
Proposed reforms to the FDA's Breakthrough Medical Devices program provide an opportunity to examine challenges and potential solutions for addressing health disparities in medical device development.
Nature Biotechnology
A monthly journal covering the science and business of biotechnology, with new concepts in technology/methodology of relevance to the biological, biomedical, agricultural and environmental sciences.
Procurement, not patents, was the key to vaccine and antiviral development during the pandemic
While intellectual property played a role in building technology platforms, the real star incentive bringing vaccines and antivirals forward was public sector investment, most prominently procurement. Understanding this reality provides an opportunity for proactive planning before the next pandemic.
