The Innovation and Evolution of Medical Devices

This text provides a central resource for physicians, entrepreneurs, and the MBA students about how innovation occurs in medical device industry.  The book uses the rise and fall of vaginal mesh kits to highlight the evolution of responses by the physicians, patients and the regulatory bodies.  There are specific chapters reviewing the US regulatory issues and business practices that were consequential to withdrawal of most vaginal mesh kits from the US market.  The book is meant