Parasitology, Harold W. Manter Laboratory of
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Document Type
Article
Date of this Version
10-2004
Citation
FDA Consumer (September-October 2004)
United States Food and Drug Administration
Abstract
In June 2004, the Food and Drug Administration cleared the first application for leeches (Hirudo medicinalis) to be used in modern medicine as medical devices. By definition, a medical device is an article intended to diagnose, cure, treat, prevent, or mitigate a disease or condition, or to affect a function or structure of the body, that does not achieve its primary effect through a chemical action and is not metabolized.
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Comments
United States government work