The medical device industry is a significant and major contributor to global health, yet innovation and research remains suboptimal. Current data focuses on devices, recalls and economics without genuine reflection on health impact and outcomes. Additionally, current understanding of medical device innovation and regulation has provided recommendations that have yet to be implemented. The medic...

introduction: medical tourism as one of the dimensions of tourism is helping in sustainable development and dynamics of the economy. considering the low cost and high income of the industry and its role on strengthening country health structures, many developing countries focused their attention on the industrial sector and planning for it. the purpose of this research was to investigate effect...

Innovation within the medical device industry had led to tremendous advances in the provision of care for patients worldwide. Continued progress in the treatment of disease will require effective processes for managing and analyzing innovation within this industry. Popular models of innovation exist for many industries outside of the medical realm; however, an extensive literature search uncove...

BACKGROUND Medical schools are grappling with how best to manage industry involvement in medical education. OBJECTIVE To describe a case study of industry-supported undergraduate medical education related to opioid analgesics. METHOD Institutional case study. RESULTS As part of their regular curriculum, Canadian medical students attended pain pharmacotherapy lectures that contained questi...

OBJECTIVE To review guidance from professional medical associations to physicians on the Sunshine Act, with a focus on industry support for medical publications. METHODS Using 'Sunshine Act' as a search term, we searched PubMed (dates February 2013 to November 2014) and the 'grey literature' using Google and Google Scholar. Online information was extracted from websites of pre-identified prof...