Starts & Stops: Boston Scientific Starts, Stops, And Finishes TAVR Trials
Executive Summary
Starts & Stops is a regular feature highlighting Medtech Insight editors' picks of noteworthy medtech clinical trial initiations, completions and suspensions each month. This month's edition includes seven trial-terminations – not as many as last month, but more than usual – for a variety of reasons, including Boston Scientific's suspension of all its trials of the Lotus transcatheter aortic valve due to a manufacturing problem.
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