1.   Corkin recently received a programmable valve that changes the pressure of her brain without surgery through an implanted device.

2.   He was not a good candidate for a ventricular assist device, another type of implanted device that can keep some people with heart failure alive.

3.   In the case of medical devices, the accord will exclude goods considered more risky, such as implanted medical devices.

4.   It will exclude goods considered more risky, such as implanted medical devices.

5.   Makers of implanted contraceptive devices are finding ways to make the process easier as well.

6.   The defibrillator portion of the implanted device functions in much the same way as an external defibrillator, in which paddles applied to the chest administer an electric shock.

7.   The doctors have started and stopped heparin because the man bled around the implanted device and in his stomach.

8.   The hope is to provide better and cheaper treatments for disease, maybe by making obsolete the current use of organ transplants and implanted devices.

9.   Medtronic is developing a system that lets implanted devices transmit real-time data to doctors over the Internet.

10.   Shikles will switch on the pulse generator by rubbing a magnet over the implanted device.