A new Canadian pharmaceutical company dedicated to women’s health is introducing a ‘painless IUD’ to Canada for the first time.
49Care has announced the launch of Yanae® copper IUD and its flexible painless inserter. The IUD was first launched in France two years ago and is also approved in Ireland, but this is the first time it will be available in Canada.
Yanae works as a copper intrauterine device (IUD) 380, but is paired with the ‘CrossGlide’ inserter. This is technology created by Crossbay which makes insertion of the IUD quick and easy and requires no instruments. The flexible inserter fits the shape of each uterus and slides easily through the cervix.
Marion Ulmann, founder of 49Care, said:
“The Health Canada approval for Yanae® is an important milestone for women and healthcare professionals in need of an approved medical device that is easy and painless to insert.”
“Before Yanae, IUD insertion has been well known to potentially be very painful. In fact, there has been an outcry recently in Canada and the US suggesting some doctors are ignoring patients’ discomfort to the degree that the updated guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the US now recommends that physicians counsel women about pain management before the procedure with standard copper models of IUDs.
Yanae is revolutionary because it’s painless.”
Yanae is effective for five years and must be prescribed, prepared and inserted by a healthcare professional.
49Care was founded in 2024 and continues to work on developing devices for reproductive health and wellbeing specifically for women’s health.
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Available clinical data indicate that the success rate of IUD insertion with Yanae® is high being between 92% (1) and 95% (2).
(Source: (1) Desjardin et Al, Assessment of a new intrauterine insertor, FIAPAC 2023), (2) Michaels et Al, Evaluation of an innovative IUD insertor (Yanae®): Results of real-world survey in France, Poster presented at ESC congress, Bilbao 2024)