Starts & Stops: Medtronic's Symplicity Flatlines For Heart Failure
Executive Summary
Starts & Stops is a regular feature highlighting Medtech Insight editors' picks of noteworthy medtech clinical trial initiations, completions and suspensions over the last month. This edition, which looks at trial updates from Sept. 8 through to Oct. 7, throws the spotlight on four studies that had the plug pulled, including Medtronic's Symplicity-HF trial.
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