Saturday, May 5, 2012

FDA okays Hologic birth control system - Houston Business Journal:

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Company officials say the system is designer to provide womena less-invasive alternative to tubal The procedure does not involve an incision and can be performed in a doctor’zs office using local anesthesia. In January Hologic received European approval for the Adiana system and commencee marketing and sales of this product in certainEuropean countries. The Adian procedure is indicated for womeh who desire permanent birt h control by occlusion of the fallopian In theAdiana procedure, a slender, flexible instrument is inserted to deliver a low level of radiofrequency (RF) energy to a smal section of each fallopian tube, companyh officials say.
Then a tiny, soft insert about the size of a graim ofrice — is placed in each fallopiab tube. During the three months following the the patient continues to use temporargy birth control while new tissue grows in and aroundd theAdiana inserts, eventually blockingv the fallopian tubes. At three months, a speciapl x-ray test is performed to confirj the fallopian tubes are completely blocked and the patient may begin relyingb on Adiana forpermanent

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