Marrianne McGhee RN BN MaEd Enjoyed reading this. Thanks for sharing!

Brian K. Buntz Thanks, Marrianne. I learned a lot myself about the relationship between pharma and medtech in my interview with the EG-GILERO folks.

Good to see you on the board, Brian.

Good job Brian - while the whole topic has been dizzying, I firmly believe that this will be the future as engineering and pharmacology will combine to create better (and more cost-effective) patient outcomes.

This relationship has been needed for many years. Glad to see it finally coming together.

Brian K. Buntz The notion of implantable devices that gradually deliver drugs for, say, 6 months at a time is interesting. Wonder how popular that type of technology will be ultimately? On the one hand, users don't have to take pills every day; on the other, you have to have a new implant put in every 6 months for as long as you are taking the course of medicine.

Edward Dolan Brian and George both make very good points. At an MDG symposium on combination products 2 years ago, Andrew von Eschenbach made the point that the future is building on a basketball model, not a golf model: collaboration across disciplines, not solo heroes.