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Ethics and advanced medical devices: Do we need a new approach?
Along with their potential to greatly benefit health, biotechnological advances surrounding medical devices may exacerbate risks, and pose new kinds of risk. Our primary mechanism for managing these...
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Public-private compact plays key role in access to healthcare
To hear industry criticised in the healthcare context for having a commercial orientation, appears to misunderstand – or perhaps undervalue – the pivotal and critical role commerce plays in...
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A new dimension in dentistry
For more than 20 years dentists and dental laboratories have been using Computer-Aided Design/Computer-Aided Manufacture processes in manufacturing various dental prothetic devices and restorations....
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Advocating for access to health technologies without compromising patient safety
Biomedical innovation is a major societal priority, and public and private funders invest heavily in the development of new health technologies such as medicines and medical devices. However, the...
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How medical devices play a central role in health care
Global advances in medical technology over the past 20 years have resulted in a 56 per cent reduction in hospital stays, 25 per cent decline in disability rates, 16 per cent decline in annual mortality...
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Taking a wise approach to the use of emerging medical devices
Implantable medical devices have been the subject of three Senate Inquiries in less than 10 years (transvaginal mesh, joint replacements and breast implants). There are lessons to be learnt and...
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Consumers in the evolving flux of the Australian medical devices ecosystem
With the ongoing investigations here and overseas into the problems with polypropylene pelvic mesh devices, and problems with some types of breast implants, its urgent that all stakeholders work with...
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The past keeps happening. We need to do something about it
Recent weeks have again demonstrated problems with Australia’s regulation of medical devices. Those problems involve pelvic mesh, implants affecting an unknown number of Australian women and claimed to...
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Transforming advances raise great benefits and risks
Unprecedented advances in biomaterials, cell biology, 3D printing and medical imaging have attracted the attention of the clinical community across Australia. Projects with tangible outcomes are...
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3D Printing in Medicine – A Transformative Technology
Despite its reputation as an inherently conservative discipline, medicine has always advanced through embracing transformative and disruptive technologies. Specific medical inventions include the...
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Medical device regulation – a challenging and changing area
Today’s rapidly evolving healthcare system, along with the expectations by patients and clinicians of rapid access to new treatments, has created some important challenges for regulators. In Australia...
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Trans vaginal mesh injuries – is anyone accountable?
The medical catastrophe associated with Trans Vaginal Mesh implants is a cautionary tale about the vulnerability of the fail-safe mechanisms we rely on to protect us from medical harm. The life...
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Medical devices – tragedy and triumph
Pelvic mesh and 3D printing – you could hardly think of two more diverse subjects. Yet it is a telling mark of the impact and complexity of medical devices and the issues they raise that this edition...
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