Cryoablation for Treatment of Heavy Menstrual Bleeding: Interview with Ric Cote, CEO of Channel Medsystems
Channel Medsystems, a medtech company based in California, created the Cerene cryotherapy device for the treatment of heavy menstrual bleeding. Heavy menstrual bleeding can affect quality of life for many women, and the condition can be associated with abdominal pain, cramping, and tiredness.
The Cerene technology aims to provide an effective treatment for heavy menstrual bleeding, a procedure which can be performed in a doctor’s surgery in just a few minutes, and which does not require general anesthesia. The procedure involves the insertion of the device into the uterus, where cryoablation of the endometrial ...
Source: Medgadget - May 2, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Exclusive Ob/Gyn Reproductive Medicine Surgery Source Type: blogs
Surgical Robot with Humanoid Arms for Transvaginal Hysterectomies
Memic, a company with headquarters in Tel Aviv, Israel and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, won FDA authorization to introduce the first of its kind robotic surgical system that utilizes humanoid-shaped arms to achieve impressive reach and procedural safety.
The FDA’s De Novo marketing authorization, which is given out for technologies that don’t have a prior analogue, indicates the new Hominis robot-assisted surgical platform for transvaginal benign surgical procedures, including benign hysterectomies.
The robotic component is quite small, unlike typical robotic surgery setups that can take up entire rooms...
Source: Medgadget - March 2, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Ob/Gyn Surgery Source Type: blogs
5 myths about endometriosis
While endometriosis is a common condition, affecting as many as one in every 10 American women, it is complex and often misunderstood. Endometriosis occurs when tissue much like the tissue that normally lines the uterus — called the endometrium — starts to grow elsewhere in the body. These growths may cause pain, scarring, and, in some instances, infertility.
One study shows it can take up to seven years for a woman to get a diagnosis of endometriosis because symptoms may mimic other common conditions, such as irritable bowel syndrome or pelvic inflammatory disease. And misconceptions about the disease, including the f...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - February 12, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Kelly Bilodeau Tags: Adolescent health Pain Management Women's Health Source Type: blogs
Confronting Eugenics Means Finally Confronting Its Ableist Roots
Robyn Powell (Stetson University), Confronting Eugenics Means Finally Confronting Its Ableist Roots, 27 William& Mary J. Women& L. (2020): In September 2020, a whistleblower complaint was filed alleging that hysterectomies are being performed on women at an immigration... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - December 21, 2020 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Detention, Dignity, and a Call for Bioethics Advocacy
A federal complaint filed last month on behalf of a nurse who worked in the Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia alleged that immigrants held in this U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility were medically neglected and forced into solitary confinement for speaking out, and that some underwent unnecessary hysterectomies. According to news reports,… Read more
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Source: blog.bioethics.net - October 22, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Susan Gilbert Tags: Health Care Hastings Bioethics Forum human rights incarcerated women Irwin County Detention Center Racial Justice syndicated Source Type: blogs
Doctor Performs Hysterectomies on Immigrant Detainees
by Craig Klugman
In a startling whistleblower report, Dawn Looten who is a licensed nurse practitioner at the Irwin County (GA) Detention Center (ICDC) stated that patients were denied COVID tests, medical records were altered and destroyed, and most disturbingly, that a very high number of hysterectomies were performed on detained immigrant women who may not have understood what was being done to them. Nurse Wooten is represented in this matter by the Government Accountability Project and Project South which spoke to others with knowledge of the prison.… (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - September 17, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Craig Klugman Tags: Featured Posts Gender Disparities Informed Consent Justice Professionalism Reproductive Ethics Social Justice Vulnerable Populations Source Type: blogs
Jada System for Postpartum Hemorrhage: Interview with Rob Binney, CEO of Alydia Health
Alydia Health, a company based in Menlo Park, California, has developed the Jada System, a device designed to stop postpartum hemorrhage. The condition involves heavy bleeding after delivery of a baby. Affected women can experience extended hospital stays, and, unfortunately, can sometimes die. In fact, postpartum hemorrhage is a leading cause of maternal death in the US.
Current treatments for the condition are not ideal, and include medications that can be too slow to work, and an inflatable balloon that slows or stops the bleeding, but takes 12-24 hours to work and can be uncomfortable.
These issues inspired th...
Source: Medgadget - September 3, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Exclusive Ob/Gyn Surgery Source Type: blogs
LIONESS Device to Help Prevent Preterm Birth
Premature birth remains a huge clinical challenge, often resulting in lifelong consequences for both children and mothers. Even in developed nations, preterm birth is the most common cause of mortality for children under five years of age. In many cases, spontaneous onset of labor occurs and it is challenging to prevent this using current methods such as medications, surgery, or hormones.
A company called PregnanTech out of Misgav, Israel has now designed an implantable device that reduces the load on the cervix, keeps the cervix elongated despite contractions, and thereby delays the biomechanical cascade and preven...
Source: Medgadget - August 6, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Ob/Gyn Source Type: blogs
Can a daily pill lighten heavy menstrual bleeding caused by fibroids?
Fibroids are generally benign (not cancerous) tumors that form within the tissues of the uterus. They are very common in reproductive-age women: studies report that up to 70% of white women and 80% of Black women may develop fibroids by age 50. And research suggests Black women are more likely to experience severe or very severe symptoms related to fibroids, such as heavy and sometimes prolonged monthly periods.
In some cases, women seek medical care due to menstrual bleeding so heavy that they develop anemia and require iron supplements or, much more rarely, blood transfusions. The FDA recently approved new medicine, take...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - July 10, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Huma Farid, MD Tags: Fertility Health Health care disparities Women's Health Source Type: blogs
Cesarean scar ectopic pregnancy- MRI
Discussion – Cesarean scar ectopic pregnancy (CSEP) or Cesarean scar pregnancy (CSP) is a rare form of ectopic pregnancy resulting from implantation of a blastocyst within myometrial scar tissue (old uterine scars) in the anterior lower uterine segment (LUS) at the site of prior Cesarean section. It is considered amongst the rarest type of ectopic pregnancy, although some do not include it in the category of ectopic pregnancy as implantation occurs within the uterus itself. Incidence is on rise due to increasing numbers of elective Cesarean sections as well as improved detection with transv...
Source: Sumer's Radiology Site - March 19, 2020 Category: Radiology Authors: Sumer Sethi Source Type: blogs
Out of Network? Cigna, RICO and where ’ s the line?
By MATTHEW HOLT
Sometimes you wonder where the line is in health care. And perhaps more importantly, whether anyone in the system cares.
The last few months have been dominated by the issue of costs in health care, particularly the costs paid by consumers who thought they had coverage. It turns out that “surprise billing” isn’t that much of a surprise. Over the past few years several large medical groups, notably Team Health owned by Blackstone, have been aggressively opting out of insurers networks. They’ve figured out, probably by reading Elizabeth Rosenthal’s great story about the 20...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 20, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Economics Finance Health Policy Matthew Holt Medicare Business of Health Care Cigna Health Care Costs out of network RICO surprise billing US Healthcare system Source Type: blogs
The Legacy of Forced Sterilizations
Brooke Warren
Phuoc Le
By PHUOC LE, MD and BROOKE WARREN
In the 1970s, Jean Whitehorse, a member of the Navajo Nation, went to a hospital in New Mexico for acute appendicitis. Years later, she found out the procedure performed was not just an appendectomy – she had been sterilized via tubal ligation. Around the same time, a Northern Cheyenne woman was told by a doctor that a hysterectomy would cure her headaches. After the procedure, her headaches persisted. Later, she found out a brain tumor was causing her pain, not a uterine problem. Like Whitehorse and the Northern Cheyenne woman, thousands of Nati...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 19, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health disparities Medical Practice Physicians Arc Health Brooke Warren eugenics legal system native american Phuoc Le sterlilizations Source Type: blogs
Some Thoughts about the Ruckus over the Ohio Abortion Bill
Jeffrey A. SingerThere has been major pushback from many Ob/Gyn specialists, reacting to abill introduced in the Ohio State House of Representatives in late November,HB 413, that would outlaw abortion in almost all circumstances. Much of the pushback from the medical profession centers around Section 2904.35 of the more than 700-page bill. The section would exempt physicians from prosecution for “abortion murder” or “aggravated abortion murder” for actions leading to the death of a fetus if they:(A) Using reasonable medical judgment, believe[] it is highly probable that the pregnant woman will die from a certain ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 18, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
