Over at Recall Guide, a new consumer protection website focused on informing the public about dangerous drugs and devices, Partner Ryan Bradley describes how medical devices make it to market. Most residents of Central Illinois are aware of the wide variety of medical devices on the market but there is little understanding as to the process that companies such as Johnson & Johnson and Stryker must go through in order to bring a device to a patient. Even fewer people are aware of the 510(k) process and how fast a new implant, metal on metal hips for example, make it out of development and into the bodies of Champaign Urbana.
Read more at Recall Guide and stay tuned form more article from Koester & Bradley lawyers.