Karl J. Hemmerich is the manager of plant operations for STERIS Isomedix (Sandy, UT), and John Masefield is executive advisor to STERIS. Jerry R. Nelson, PhD, is director of Nelson Laboratories Inc.

Surgical methods are highly effective but are mostly irreversible and therefore are offered to multiparous, "older" women. Data on the various surgical methods are limited in terms of comparative ...

Following the closures of contract sterilization facilities that prompted the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to alert to the potential for medical device shortages, the agency launched two ...

The risk of pregnancy among women using a newer method of planned sterilization called hysteroscopic sterilization is more than 10 times greater over a 10-year period than using the more commonly ...

More than seven years after publishing draft guidance on the topic, FDA is back with final guidance on "Submission and Review of Sterility Information in Premarket Notification (510(k)) Submissions ...

Thanks to advances in semiconductor and packaging technologies, today integrated circuits (ICs) are found in a widening array of equipment, including medical devices. A particular challenge for ...

When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2002 approved hysteroscopic sterilization, a less invasive type of permanent contraception branded as Essure, it was considered a turning point in ...

Patients who had undergone hemodialysis using dialyzers that had been sterilized with the use of electron beams were more likely to develop thrombocytopenia (an abnormally low platelet count in the ...

Medgadget reports on a recent award given to Conceptus for their Essure permanent birth control system. An Essure mico-insert is placed at the opening of the fallopian tube. It expands and anchors ...

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Women who used a new method of sterilization called hysteroscopic sterilization had a 10 times greater risk of pregnancy after one year than those who used the older laparoscopic sterilization method.