Day: June 8, 2017

The Humanitarian Use Devices (HUD) form a small group of FDA regulated devices intended to treat rare disease. It is the device equivalent of the orphan drug designation for drug and biologics but much less popular than the orphan drug. There are only 63 HUD devices in the market; each year FDA approved 2-6 of … Read more

What diseases people search for on the internet provides a useful hint to how that information is used. A list of 20 most searched diseases on Google is very surprising; it does not include any life-threatening disease and has a strange mix of indications seldom discussed together. But it points to an important trend. There … Read more