Guest guest Posted June 3, 2004 Report Share Posted June 3, 2004 US advisers back new ultrasound fibroid therapy Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Earthlink Zoo Mail 1.0 Well, I'm in TOTAL disagreement (and completely disgusted) with this decision...but...here it is...although I wrote that letter in non-support of the approval of the ExAblate 2000, I knew damn well that the money wheel had already been well greased to make it happen. On the crappy outcome of 44 (out of an original 109 enrolled for HIFUS) patients -- with 20% of them needing an alternative therapy by the 12 month mark. Unbelievable. *********************** US advisers back new ultrasound fibroid therapy Reuters, 06.03.04, 4:48 PM ET GAITHERSBURG, Md. (Reuters) - An advisory panel to the FDA Thursday urged approval of a new treatment using ultrasound to break up fibrous clumps in the uterus, an alternative to hysterectomies and other surgical treatments. read the rest here: http://www.forbes.com/home/newswire/2004/06/03/rtr1394967.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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