Starts & Stops is a regular feature highlighting Medtech Insight editors' picks of noteworthy medtech clinical trial initiations, completions and suspensions each month. This edition highlights an apparent trial-suspension spike in the past month, including three studies that were stopped by Abbott evaluating products it inherited from its acquisition of St Jude Medical.
There are many reasons why a clinical trial may be suspended. Typical explanations are insufficient patient enrollment or insufficient funding, but, sometimes, more serious events crop up that oblige the sponsor to halt a study.
In the past month, there was a significant spike in the number of medical device trial suspensions. Between early Jan....