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Need for Availability & Access to Clinical Evidence for Medical Devices for Europe

Why access to transparent clinical evidence matters for medical devices in Europe, and how the lack of it affects reviews, adoption and patient care.

The health system decides the different kinds of technologies that can be used to treat disease, and there are several medical devices available at its cost. But medical devices have to undergo reviews before they are accessible to physicians, because of a lack of transparency in the clinical evidence for the device.

The Healthy Supermarket, an Integrated Model for Prevention and Management of Obesity: Translational Challenges in a Real-World In-Store Setting in Urban Southern India

Radhika Ganesan. Nutrition and Food Technology: Open Access, 2(1). DOI: 10.16966/2470-6086.113

Dr Radhika Ganesan presents the 'healthy supermarket', a real-world nutrition education model for Chennai that combined colour-coded racks by level of processing, ingredient and nutrient labelling, and in-house nutritionists to help shoppers choose healthier food, and analyses the barriers to scaling it sustainably.

This article presents such an innovation of nutritional education via the 'healthy supermarket' model... This model used a colour coded method, along with additional labeling of ingredients, in-house nutritionists and posters for education and information.