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Lasers Take Away The Sting Of Injections
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Having an injection at the doctor’s office is not something that anyone looks forward to even though they may be necessary; they are uncomfortable or downright painful for many. A company in Liechtenstein has been developing a technology by which physicians could avoid using needle to administer vaccinations and other medications. The technology the company is working on transdermal medication delivery system called “painless laser epidermal system” (PLEASE).
Researchers at the company, Pantec Biosolutions, was quoted as saying, “…this device will unlock therapeutic areas with a high unmet need for easy-to-use, efficient, and painless application of biologicals.” The company was founded eight years with a team of doctors, engineers, scientists and entrepreneurs tasked with the goal of coming up with a to replace “needle-based therapies” and began developing the transdermal alternative.
There are two devices, a home and a professional style model. The home PLEASE model is battery operated and handheld; the professional model is a tabletop unit and both use a patent-pending “highly miniaturized diode-pumped laser system.” The laser pulses to minimize the impact on the skin during the delivery of the medication. The PLEASE device utilizes a wavelength that “needs to be highly absorbed by water because of its wavelength of 2940nm.” Because the device utilizes a class 1-laser system it doesn’t require that medical professionals don safety protection when they’re using it.
One of the first demographic markets that the company chose was female infertility treatment. These treatments involve subcutaneous and intramuscular hormone injections, which could be replaced with drug patches that would contain the same hormones as in the injections. Prior to the patch being used, the PLEASE laser system would be used to treat the site where the patch would be placed, a procedure that takes less than five seconds. Once the site was treated, the patient would receive a home PLEASE laser system and the patches, which would be used on the schedule prescribed by the woman’s physician.
The system also looks promising for the treatment of non-melanoma skin cancers.
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