Last year, the U forage and Drug A...

Last year, the U forage and Drug Administration approved an average of nearly single in kind new medical device a week and considered centurys more. That work is a big help to the health-insurance industry unless insurers still face many decisions about whether and to what degree they will cover those devices.

Recent devices to win FDA approval include results for defibrillation aneurysm repair, hearing improvement, grape-sugar monitoring, spinal-fusion in the lumbar area and shock-wave therapy in succession elbows. As of late February, the FDA was complete to approving a drug-coated designed to prevent' arteries from reclogging. In August 2001 it approved