Starts & Stops: Abbott, Boston Scientific Head List Of Early 2018 Trial Announcements
Executive Summary
Starts & Stops is a regular feature in Medtech Insight highlighting noteworthy clinical trial announcements, initiations, completions, and suspensions tracked by Meddevicetracker. This edition covers the start of 2018, which includes important trial announcements from Abbott, Boston Scientific, Medtronic, Edwards and many more. The Stops & Starts feature will be switching to a weekly schedule as of March 5 to offer more timely updates on medical device trials.
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