Starts & Stops: S-ICD And Respiratory App Studies Among Year-End Large-Scale Trial Launches
Executive Summary
Starts & Stops is a regular feature highlighting Medtech Insight editors' picks of noteworthy medtech clinical trial initiations, completions and suspensions over the past month. This edition notes the particularly high number of large-scale trials launched toward the end of 2016.
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