CPTS from dayinvestor.com
pretty fresh......found this on comtex, looks overlooked.
(COMTEX) New Sterilization Device Tried in Australia
CANBERRA (April 21) XINHUA - A new sterilization procedure is set to
revolutionize permanent contraception for women around the globe
following the success of world-first clinical trials in Australia.
Queen Elizabeth and Ashford Community hospitals in Adelaide, capital of
South Australia state, are the first in the world to hold clinical
trials into the use of a new device, which does not require any
incisions or general anaesthetic, the Australian Associated Press (AAP)
reported Wednesday.
The device, known as STOP, is a small coil less than one mm in diameter
and about 2.5 cm long made of a space-age metal.
Developed by an American company, it is inserted into the opening of a
woman's fallopian tubes using a small telescope called a hysteroscope
passed through the cervix at the top of the vagina.
Some local anaesthetic is applied to the cervix and the patient may be
sedated if she wishes.
Patients can watch the irreversible procedure, which takes about 10 to
15 minutes, on a monitor and, after a one-hour observation period, can
go home.
The procedure has been kept a secret for 17 months but early results
were so encouraging the company that makes the device, United
States-based Conceptus Inc, is setting up two new study centers, one in
the U.S. and one in the Netherlands, the AAP said.
The first physician in the world to try the new device, John Kerin,
said the metal used in the device did not react with the tissues in any
way.
The same type of device had been used to block leaking blood vessels in
the human brain and heart.
He said he could not say exactly how the device worked but it was
logical that it blocked sperm from meeting the egg in the fallopian
tubes, where fertilization normally takes place.
Kerin said STOP was 50 times smaller than an intra uterine device (IUD)
and was not placed in the uterus which, because of its muscular nature
and menstruation, could cramp and be irritated by IUDs. Enditem
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