Each year, far fewer medical devices are approved by the Food and Drug Administration for children than adults. This means pediatricians don’t always have top-notch tools available to address medical challenges in babies and kids.
Now, a team of scientists and physicians at two of the Bay Area’s leading research institutions are collaborating to address the problem. Researchers at Stanford University and the University of California-San Francisco are nurturing the development of new medical devices through the UCSF-Stanford Pediatric Device Consortium, established last year with an award of $6.7 million from the FDA.
