Biocompatible Medical Devices: Raise the Bar for Health Care

From pacemakers to hip replacements, sophisticated sensors to catheters, medical devices are helping millions of patients live far better and even much longer lives. The possibilities are nearly endless, provided the new devices are biocompatible. In other words, they must not have harmful consequences for the patient, but they must also play some role and function well within the immensely complicated and not completely understood human body.