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How Are Medical Devices Approved, and Why Most Are Not
Cleared and approved are different words with different meanings. Most devices reach hospitals by resembling something already on the market, with no clinical trial at any point.
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How Clinical Trials Work, and Why Most Drugs Fail
Roughly six in every hundred drugs that enter human testing come out the far end. The phases, the arithmetic between them, and what to check when a trial makes the news.