The Power of Perseverance

For many in the device space, perseverance is an absolutely essential quality, the quality from which all else flows, and few people in this industry better exemplify the spirit and virtues of perseverance than Karen Talmadge, PhD, now executive vice president, co-founder and chief science officer at Kyphon, a spine company with a truly novel technology that today has a market cap of more than a billion dollars.

By David Cassak

It's often been said that success has many parents, but failure is an orphan. For a select few, success comes...

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