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Medical Devices Network and Knowledge Database

Medical Devices Definitions

In this section you can find basic definitions and information about medical devices and medical devices industry. Some of them are established by EEC (European Economic Community) and FDA (Food and Drug Administration)

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Medical Device Manufacturers in Switzerland

Swiss Life Sciences Database (click on [Loading...] if not redirected to the site)
On this site you have free access to a very comprehensive directory and information platform comprising data of Life Sciences and Biotechnology companies and institutes in Switzerland including company description, additional information and categorization. This database is sponsored by seven partners: BioAlps, BioValley Basel, Greater Zurich Area, Swiss BioteCHnet, SWX Swiss Exchange, SECO and Venture Valuation.

Greater Z�rich Area / Z�rich MedNet Database
is a public information resource and business development network serving the medical and biotechnology community of the Greater Zurich Area. A virtual community, comprising more than 400 companies, universities, institutes, foundations, hospitals and labs, Zurich MedNet is the single largest medical/biotech cluster in continental Europe. In organizing and in planning for its competitive future, Zurich MedNet has formed a strategic alliance with the University of Minnesota's MBBNet, an information resource web portal to that US State's virtual biomedical and bioscience community. Together, Zurich MedNet and MBBNet represent the world's first and largest medical/bio cluster/web portal alliance, linking research and information resources for more than 1300 organizations.
Contact for medical and bio-technologies at Greater Zurich Area is Ms. Wenche Marti, +41 (0)1 254 59 03.

Medical Devices

MDD 93/42/EEC:
"medical device" means any instrument, apparatus, appliance, material or other article, whether used alone or in combination, including the software necessary for its proper application intended by the manufacturer to be used for human beings for the purpose of:

diagnosis, prevention, monitoring, treatment or alleviation of disease,
diagnosis, monitoring, treatment, alleviation of or compensation for an injury or handicap,
investigation, replacement or modification of the anatomy or of a physiological process,
control of conception,
and which does not achieve its principal intended action in or on the human body by pharmacological, immunological or metabolic means, but which may be assisted in its function by such means

FD&C Section 201(h):
A device 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 it's 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.

Innovation and Marketing

The technology push vs. the marketing pull.

Innovation Process in the Medical Devices Industry

The innovation process is based upon the MDD 93/42/EEC and the FDA 21 CFR 820.30.

APTE Science Forum

News, information and links about biotechnologies, nanotechnologies, microtechnologies: http://www.apte.net/scienceforum/index.htm

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