This month, I explore just how old medical devices are as measured by the date they were cleared or approved by the FDA, using the Global Unique Device Identification Database.
That database is the only one that FDA maintains that gives insight into specifically what devices are currently marketed in the United States. And of course, this being unpacking averages, I don’t just want the average, but I want to understand the range.
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