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Data proving product's effectiveness found 'unreliable'
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women has produced unreliable data on its effective
ness, and it seems to work better in the lab than in
people.
The agency convened a panel of outside experts to
give advice on whether the female condom should
be allowed onto the U.S. market.
The FDA usually follows the advice of such com
mittees. There is no timetable for its decision.
"We're trying to make decisions quickly these
days," said Dr. David Kessler, the FDA commission
er.
Wisconsin Pharmacal Co., which makes the device
and plans to market it under the brand name Reality,
has done a number of tests, both on the condom and
people who use it.
The company said tests over six months found a
failure rate of 12.2 percent among women in the
United States, with failure defined as pregnancy. The
FDA pointed out that the failure rate among women
studied in Latin America was almost twice that and
among certain age groups, over 30 percent.
The agency said the company may have underes
timated the failure rate by as much as 10 percent.
The female condom is an adaptation of the one for
men. It is a seven-inch tube with flexible rings at
both ends. The inner ring fits behind the woman's
pubic bone, and the outer ring remains outside her
body.
The condom has been pumped full of.helium,
filled with water, shot with lasers and tried in rabbits
in the laboratory to see if it irritated the animals.
Those tests were fine, the FDA said.
The results in people were mixed. Some used it
better than others. And because of the company's
methods, the condom's failure rate can't be com
pared to that of other birth control methods, the
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