Recent calls for tighter clinical requirements for medical devices should themselves be recalled. Such requirements would not greatly increase public safety; they would hamper innovation.

Left ventricular assist devices, or "heart pumps," are proving to be the best available option for patients with advanced heart failure, and the technology has huge potential for improvement.

Cosponsored by AEI and the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at Brookings Institution, this conference on regulating medical devices will convene stakeholders to discuss current challenges and feasible solutions that protect public health while encouraging the development, approval, and reimbursement of effective technologies.

This is an all too familiar story, the FDA impeding useful innovations in the US entrepreneurs here are forced to test promising medical devices in costly animal studies for years before they can advance their products into clinical trials. In response, American device makers are moving their business overseas.

Obamacare may be President Obama proudest legislative achievement, but the fact is it has been a political disaster for Democrats. The unpopular law has galvanized Obama’s conservative opponents, driven away moderates and independents, and hung like an albatross around the neck of the U.S. economy. A decision by the Supreme...

Although aid has increased in recent years and the price of many drugs has fallen, worldwide access to medicines, vaccines, and medical devices has not kept pace.

The new health care law will create a policy limbo that is likely to persist for decades, increasing uncertainty, ultimately discouraging investment and scientific risk-taking.