Start-Up Spotlight: OCON Medical Bets On A New 3D Copper Contraceptive Device

Israeli start-up OCON Medical is blazing a trail in the field of women's health with a new hormone-free contraceptive device. The company's IUB – intrauterine ball consists of copper pearls that prevent pregnancy locally within the uterus for five years.

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OCON Medical is on a mission to revolutionize a field that is long overdue a shakeup with its IUB intrauterine ball, a copper contraceptive device that is designed to improve patient safety and quality of life compared to existing intrauterine devices.

OCON's technology originated in 2008 when company founder and senior gynecologist, Dr. Ilan Baram, attended the European Society of Contraception meeting in Spain. In one lecture a physician described his patients coming to him complaining of pain and bleeding after IUD insertion and showed videos of hysteroscopy procedures

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