A 
medical device comprising a supporting structure capable of including or supporting a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier or 
excipient, which carrier or 
excipient may include one or more therapeutic agents or substances, with the carrier including a 
coating on the surface thereof, and the 
coating including the therapeutic substances, such as, for example, drugs. Supporting structures for the medical devices that are suitable for use in this invention include, but are not limited to, coronary stents, 
peripheral stents, catheters, arterio-venous grafts, by-pass grafts, and 
drug delivery balloons used in the vasculature. Drugs that are suitable for use in this invention include, but are not limited to,  This 
drug can be used in combination with another 
drug including those selected from anti-proliferative agents, anti-
platelet agents, anti-inflammatory agents, anti-thrombotic agents, cytotoxic drugs, agents that inhibit 
cytokine or 
chemokine binding, 
cell de-differentiation inhibitors, anti-lipaedemic agents, 
matrix metalloproteinase inhibitors, 
cytostatic drugs, or combinations of these drugs.