The medical devices industry has been under a deluge of evolving regulations, leading to protracted lead times and high device development costs for new and enhanced medical devices. These costs assume worrying proportions for low volume product markets. 3D printing technology presents a promising option and involves leveraging additive manufacturing processes that use a layer-by-layer material...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES There has been an increasing focus on the relationship between pediatric prescribers and the biomedical industry. There is a lack of research, however, on the biomedical industry's relationship with the professional medical associations (PMAs) of pediatric prescribers. We developed a systematic method to assess this relationship by evaluating PMA transparency and compl...

Stacia Nordin I appreciate Zlotkin and colleagues’ years of work on the Sprinkle product, and it sounds like the product is much improved from the pill form of micronutrient treatments [1]. I’m not at all opposed to Sprinkle-type products or other nutrient pills for treatment (or in other special situations), but as ten years of international work experience on food and nutrition security issue...

T he American Medical Student Association (AMSA), with more than a half-century history of medical student activism, is the oldest and largest independent association of physicians-in-training in the United States. As the voice for over 50,000 members, AMSA has prided itself on fostering ideals such as honesty and integrity, and on promoting the interests of patients and communities. In 2002, w...

The offshore oil industry is an important industry employing a huge number of employees, involving a huge amount of money, having a huge influence on national and international economies, and thereby representing a huge political impact and influence. Despite being a huge industry, it has many characteristics of a small family. The number of operators, service-companies, and contractors is rela...

Financial Relationships between Medical Communication Companies and Industry, a letter from Murray Kopelow, MD, ACCME President and Chief Executive, published in JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association, April 23/3

unto its own: Swiss medtech, as industry advocates call it. In scant decades, Switzerland has bulled its way on the global medical technology market, using, it seems, an approach that has long been championed by Dr. Arthur Carty, Canada’s former national science and technology advisor and the former president of the National Research Council of Canada. Carty calls it “cluster” strategy. It esse...

Pharmaceutical companies use a variety of strategies, including gifts, to influence physicians. In December 2009, the Medical Council of India amended the Code of Medical Ethics to ban medical professionals from accepting gifts from pharmaceutical companies. In view of this ban, it is important to find out the magnitude and contours of the problem amongst Indian medical professionals. We aimed ...

Medical Tourism has become one of the latest trends in the tourism industry which has been and has the potential to continue growing exponentially every year. More travelers than ever before are now travelling abroad to get high quality medical treatments for less cost. The purpose of my study is to explore the interest in US travelers in medical tourism. Results from the survey indicated that ...

CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION (CME) IS A MULTIbillion-dollar industry. In 2006, the CME providers accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) had a total income of $2.38 billion. In 1998, the income was $889 million, and most had come from the registration fees of participants or sponsoring organizations. Since 2003, however, most of the income for CME provid...