Johnson & Johnson soon to have contraceptive patch
The pharmaceuticals and consumer healthcare products firm Johnson & Johnson has announced that it will soon seek FDA marketing approval for a contraceptive patch that women could wear on their skin for a week.
A Company representative at the Johnson & Johnson offices in New Brunswick, N.J. said "It's a patch that you put on once a week instead of taking a pill everyday." Women could wear the half-dollar-sized patch, on their chest, buttocks, abdomen, or arms.
The patch, currently in late clinical trials, is as effective as oral contraceptives and has the same active ingredients, norgestimate and ethinyl estradiol, as some of Johnson & Johnsonıs birth control pills, the Company spokesman said.
For electrologists it's just a matter of time before they must add a new question to their client case history cards: Do you take the Patch?
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