Abstract: A method of modulating drug release from coated substrates by modulating the drying rate of the coatings on the substrates. Each coating is a mixture of a polymer, a solvent, and drug and the method includes modulating the release rate of the drug particles from the outer surface of the coatings by drying the solvent of each of the mixtures at different drying rates. A decrease in the drying rate of the solvent increases the initial release rate of the drug and an increase in the drying rate of the solvent decreases the initial release rate of the drug.

Abstract: A coated medical device have a drug and a nucleating agent thereon. Also provided are methods of increasing or decreasing the size of drug particles on a coated substrate through the use of nucleating agents to thereby increase or decrease the release rate of the drug from the coated substrate.

Abstract: A lubricious coating including at least one ethylenically unsaturated resin and at least one hydrophilic aliphatic polyether polyurethane which does not crosslink with said ethylenically unsaturated resin, and to methods of making and using the same.

Abstract: An ultraviolet curable lubricious coating including at least one lubricious polymer and at least one oxygen-insensitive crosslinkable polymer, methods of making and using the same, and articles coated therewith.