Medical devices are regulated and classified ( in the US ) as follows ( see also Regulation ):

Medical / biomedical imaging is a major segment of medical devices.

# Medical software: The U. S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) has identified the use of static analysis for medical devices.

In July 2011 the FDA published a final rule in the Federal Register that classified the rTMS system into class II ( special controls ) ( see: Medical device # Classification ) " in order to provide a reasonable assurance of safety and effectiveness of these devices ".

Medical devices such as ultrasound can act as placebos.

* Yossi Gross — Medical devices innovator and entrepreneur ; founding partner of Rainbow Medical

Medical warnings about the physical and emotional damage caused by " self abuse " were seconded by clergymen, and the consequent fears were exploited by quacks who touted patent devices and heroic cures for the affliction of masturbation.

“ Medical Physics Services will contribute to maintaining and improving the quality, safety, and cost-effectiveness of healthcare services through patient-oriented activities requiring expert action, involvement or advice regarding the specification, selection, acceptance testing, commissioning, quality assurance including quality control, and optimised clinical use of medical devices and regarding risks from associated physical agents ; all activities will be based on current best evidence or own scientific research when the available evidence is not sufficient.

Officers in Public Health Service wear unique devices which are similar to U. S. Navy Staff Corps Officers ( e. g., Navy Medical Service Corps, Supply Corps, etc.

Medical ventilators are sometimes coloquially called " respirators ," a term which stems from commonly used devices in the 1950's ( particularly the " Bird Respirator ").

** Common zero-rated items include basic groceries, prescription drugs, inward / outbound transportation and medical devices ( GST / HST Memoranda Series ME-04-02-9801-E 4. 2 Medical and Assistive Devices ).

:* Medical devices use the naming convention of the Global Medical Device Nomenclature ( GMDN ).

In 2005 Zarlink launched the industry's first ultra low-power transceiver chip for wireless communication systems designed exclusively to operate in the Medical Implantable Communication Service ( MICS ) band, used to link implanted medical devices and base stations.

Zarlink announced a Zarlink-led Self-Energizing Implantable Medical Microsystem ( SIMM ) project which successfully designed and tested an in-body microgenerator that will harvest energy from the heartbeat to power implanted medical devices.

Medical devices are frequently regulated and must comply with local and regional laws, including the Medical Devices Directive for devices in the European Union ( EU ).

*( I ) Integrated Medical Software: Integrated Medical Software is often unavailable but companies continue to manufacture and sell this type of medical software for imaging and other medical devices.

In Europe, dental materials are classified as medical devices according to the Medical Devices Directive.

* Medical devices

# Medical devices ( exemption removed in July, 2011 )

During the period from 1 July 1960 through 31 January 1961, additional research affiliations were effected with the U. S. Army Medical Research and Development Command to conduct research in procedures for quantitative electron microscopy, and for the study of biophysical and biological studies of the structure and function of ocular tissue.

Visual and operable training aids developed by the Medical Illustration Service, were used in support of Army Medical Service mass casualty exercises.

Demonstrations of new and projected training aids were conducted at the Medical Service Instructor's Conference, Brooke Army Medical Center, Texas.

Fifty lantern slide teaching sets on the subject of `` Emergency War Surgery ( NATO ) '' were assembled and distributed to the Medical Military Services of foreign Governments associated with NATO and South-East Asia Treaty Organization.

Nine veterinary lantern slide teaching sets were developed and distributed, and lantern slide teaching sets on 21 pathology subjects were added to the loan library of the Medical Illustration Service.

These bills were endorsed by public health and medical organizations, including the American Holistic Nurses ’ Association, the American Medical Association, and the American Public Health Association ( APHA ).

In 1940, at least 500 patients were deported from the Heil-und Pflegeanstalt Ansbach Medical and Nursing Clinic to the extermination facilities Sonnenstein and Hartheim which were disguised as psychiatric institutions, as part of the T4 euthanasia action.

The structure and conceptual framework were the same as in Medical 203 and many passages of text identical.

In the fall of 1862, Confederate laws were changed to permit the employment of women in hospitals as members of the Confederate Medical Department.

However, many cognitive and behavioral therapies were themselves originally influenced by older hypnotherapy techniques, e. g., the systematic desensitisation of Joseph Wolpe, the cardinal technique of early behavior therapy, was originally called " hypnotic desensitisation " and derived from the Medical Hypnotism ( 1948 ) of Lewis Wolberg.

Several injuries were severe enough to warrant the need for patients to be airlifted to the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville.

Medical diagnosis ( e. g., Mycin ) was a major application area, as were games such as chess.

A paper published in JAVMA ( Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association ) in 2005 showed that dogs spayed laparoscopically experienced significantly less pain ( 65 %) than those that were spayed with traditional ' open ' methods.

His final appointments were that of Head of the Medical Clinic at the Hôpital de la Charité and Professor at the Collège de France.

DNA information, made public in July 2008, that has been obtained from Ekaterinburg and repeatedly subject to independent testing by laboratories such as the University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA, and reveals that the final two missing Romanov remains are indeed authentic and that the entire Romanov family housed in the Ipatiev House, Ekaterinburg were executed in the early hours of 17 July 1918.

In the series ' first episode, Voyagers Chief Medical Officer, along with his Vulcan nurse, were killed, necessitating extended use of the EMH.

Several other minor refinements were made to stethoscopes, until in the early 1960s Dr. David Littmann, a Harvard Medical School professor, created a new stethoscope that was lighter than previous models and had improved acoustics.

The injured sailors were taken to the United States Army's Landstuhl Regional Medical Center near Ramstein, Germany, and later, back to the United States.

On November 21, 1921, President Harding signed the Sheppard-Towner Maternity Act, the first major federal government social welfare program in the U. S. The law funded almost 3, 000 child and health centers throughout the U. S. Medical doctors were spurred to offer preventative health care measures in addition to treating ill children.

A 2008 study in the British Medical Journal concluded that 269, 000 civilians were killed by all sides in the war.

In December 1968, the Journal of Medical Genetics published the first XYY review article — by Michael Court Brown, director of the MRC Human Genetics Unit — which reported no overrepresentation of XYY males in nationwide chromosome surveys of prisons and hospitals for the developmentally disabled and mentally ill in Scotland, and concluded that studies confined to institutionalized XYY males may be guilty of selection bias, and that long-term longitudinal prospective studies of newborn XYY boys were needed.

: The American style is used by most American newspapers, publishing houses and style guides in the United States and Canada ( including the Modern Language Association's MLA Style Manual, the American Psychological Association's APA Publication Manual, the University of Chicago's The Chicago Manual of Style, the American Institute of Physics's AIP Style Manual, the American Medical Association's AMA Manual of Style, the American Political Science Association's APSA Style Manual, the Associated Press ' The AP Guide to Punctuation and the Canadian Public Works ' The Canadian Style ).

In reality, the notch was designed to hold the tag in place when being imprinted on the carbon-paper medical form by the Model 70 Addressograph ( a pistol-type imprinting machine used by the Medical Department during World War II ).

The shield appears to have been used as the basis of the shield of Dartmouth Medical School, and it has been reproduced in sizes as small as 20 micrometers across.

The latter two radio technologies used microwave transmission over the Industrial Scientific Medical frequency band at 2. 4 GHz.

Medical consideration of hermaphroditism depended upon measurements of the clitoris ; a longer, engorged clitoris was thought to be used by women to penetrate other women.

A 2008 British Medical Journal article highlights that the combination of macrolides and statins ( used for lowering cholesterol ) is not advisable and can lead to debilitating myopathy.

Moreover, " medical peer review " has been used by the American Medical Association to refer not only to the process of improving quality and safety in health care organizations, but also to the process of rating clinical behavior or compliance with professional society membership standards.

* Medical gloves made out of latex, vinyl, nitrile, or polyurethane may be used as a makeshift dental dam during oral sex, or to protect the hands during sexual stimulation, such as masturbation.

In the UK, the commonly used triage system is the Smart Incident Command System, taught on the MIMMS ( Major Incident Medical Management ( and ) Support ) training program.

Medical thermometers such as mercury-in-glass thermometers, infrared thermometers, pill thermometers, and liquid crystal thermometers are used within health care to determine if individuals have a fever or are hypothermic.

Medical sonography ( ultrasonography ) is an ultrasound-based diagnostic medical imaging technique used to visualize muscles, tendons, and many internal organs, to capture their size, structure and any pathological lesions with real time tomographic images.

Dr. William DeVries and his surgical team at the University of Utah Medical Center made medical history and national headlines on December 2, 1982, when they replaced a diseased heart with the Jarvik-7, the first permanent artificial heart ever used for a human patient.

The term is still used by some sources, including Medical Subject Headings.

Amygdalotomy, which targets the amygdala, was developed as a treatment for aggression by Hideki Narabayashi in 1961 and is still used occasionally, for example at the Medical College of Georgia.

In May 2010, a paper from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center detailed preliminary results of research into the sensing mechanisms used by O157: H7 to determine when to adopt an acid-resistant state needed to escape from the digestive tract.

The American Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM ) has eliminated the category of " neurosis ", reflecting a decision by the editors to provide descriptions of behavior as opposed to hidden psychological mechanisms as diagnostic criteria, and, according to The American Heritage Medical Dictionary, it is " no longer used in psychiatric diagnosis ".

Medical treatments and psychotherapy are used to treat psychosomatic disorders.

* Medical jargon for noradrenaline, a powerful medication that is used in severely unwell patients

The term was first widely used in the United States by advocates of the American Medical Association in opposition to President Harry S. Truman's 1947 health-care initiative.

The second phase of fort-building ( 1806 – 1819 ) included Fort Pitt ( later used as a hospital and the site of the first Army Medical School ).

In some jurisdictions, the title of " Medical Examiner " is used by a non-physician, elected official involved in medicolegal death investigation.

A tongue-in-cheek analysis in the Canadian Medical Association Journal compares the services of Dr. Hibbert and Dr. Nick Riviera, a quack physician often used by The Simpsons as an alternative source of medical advice.

Medical Tourism is likely to be used for expensive and more complicated surgeries ; however vasectomy is on the list of available procedures.