title: Look who's 40! To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Health Devices, we revisit our first issue.
abstract: In April 1971, Health Devices premiered. Healthcare was a very different world then. Yet some of the challenges are very much the same today. Join us in looking back at our inaugural issue and at healthcare then and now.
mesh_terms: D004867:Equipment Design; D004868:Equipment Failure; D004869:Equipment Safety; D004864:Equipment and Supplies / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D006278:Medicare / Q000266:history; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000266:history*; D014481:United States; D014486:United States Food and Drug Administration / Q000266:history