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.
[Editor's note: This article was updated on Oct 10, 2016, to include more information on Symplicity-HF's one-year follow-up results and additional comments from the company in paragraphs 3, 6 and 7]
Symplicity-HF, the study of Medtronic PLC 's catheter-based renal denervation technology in patients with chronic heart failure and renal...
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This week, Establishment Labs Holdings announced the FDA gave it premarket approval for Motiva breast implant, Cologuard lands FDA approval for Cologuard Plus and GE HealthCare gets FDA nod for a new imaging agent. The FDA announces another expansion for TAP into ophthalmology and radiology. The AAMI and CTA will join forces to develop standards for AI and ML-enabled health care products.
