Starts & Stops: ICS' Emblok Medtronic's Arctic Front, Abbott's Absorb, Boston Scientific's S-ICD
Executive Summary
Starts & Stops is a regular feature highlighting Medtech Insight editors' picks of noteworthy medtech clinical trial initiations, completions and suspensions each month. Over the last month, 31 new trials started, 25 trial were completed, one trial was "reinitiated," and six trials were terminated or suspended, according to meddevicetracker.
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