Medical Devices
8/15/2008
“A medical device, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
(FDA), is an instrument, apparatus, implement, machine, contrivance, implant, in
vitro reagent, or other similar or related article, including a component part,
or accessory which is:
recognized in the official National Formulary, or the United States
Pharmacopoeia, or any supplement to them,
intended for use in the diagnosis of disease or other conditions, or in the
cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease, in man or other animals,
or
intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of man or
other animals, and which does not achieve any of its primary intended purposes
through chemical action within or on the body of man or other animals and which
is not dependent upon being metabolized for the achievement of any of its
primary intended purposes.
as defined by the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, 21 United States Code.”
Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_device (11/17/2008).
Warning: Sometimes the older links no longer work. Go to the US Patent number search page, copy the Patent number into the search box and search. For the articles, use your browser to go the Journal site.
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Notes
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Review Articles
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US Patents
12/16/2008
7,465,777
Hybrid polymer materials from reactive extrusion for medical devices
11/25/2008
7,455,325
Connecting element comprising a first body and a method for injection moulding a
connecting element
7,455,739
Shaped reinforcing member for medical device and method for making the same
7,455,737
Selective treatment of linear elastic materials to produce localized areas of
superelasticity
11/11/2008
7,449,210
Electrostatic loading of drugs on implantable medical devices
7,448,122
Method of compressing a polymeric layer of an expandable medical device
10/28/2008
7,442,175
Compression sleeve having air conduit
10/7/2008
7,431,874
Methods for making oxidation resistant polymeric material
9/2/2008
7,419,563
Methods
of making medical devices
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Journal Articles
10/24/2008
Synthesis of Polymerizable Superoxide Dismutase
Mimetics to Reduce Reactive Oxygen Species Damage in Transplanted Biomedical
Devices
(p 3119-3126)
Advanced Functional Materials 18 #20 (2008)
Abstract
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Roger D. Corneliussen
Editor
Telephone: 610 883 0055
rcorneliussen@4spe.org
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Copyright 2008 by Roger D. Corneliussen