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Home   »   News   »   Meet HIHI’s Femtech Innovation Call winners – Spotlighting AltaScience and their product AltaSeal for permanent contraception
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Meet HIHI’s Femtech Innovation Call winners – Spotlighting AltaScience and their product AltaSeal for permanent contraception

22nd January 2024

AltaScience is developing a FemTech medical device for permanent contraception. It is an alternative to tubal ligation.

Read all about AltaSeal here

AltaScience – Health Innovation Hub Ireland (hih.ie)

 

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