"Health Devices"

IN the field of medicine, a new monthly periodical seeking the usual objective of solvent success, might seem to be off to a dubious start if it (1) saddled itself with a $250-a-year subscription price, (2) requested editorially that subscribers refrain from sharing its pages, and (3) printed text that bluntly rated some products of big business as unacceptable or even hazardous. Yet this is exactly what a new publication called Health Devices has done. Its sponsors are convinced that hospital administration needs to be given, and will pay for, objective information concerning the 5000-odd devices that doctors and ancillary . . .