Device Week, Oct. 19, 2017 – IVD Updates, And Watchman Scrutiny
Executive Summary
On this week's podcast, we highlighted progress by several startups in the molecular diagnostics space, and discussed growing scrutiny in the cardiology community of Boston Scientific's Watchman stroke device.
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