I understand what you're saying, but hasn't propulsid already been approved by the FDA? If not, how would it already be on the market? And while I'm not saying that intergel should be approved or not, specifically for the use of adhesion prevention, I can only speak from my experience and it did help me. And the non-approval of the intergel had nothing to do with its safety or anything like that, from what I've been told. "Sodium hyaluronate ("hyaluronate"), the chemical which is the base for intergel, is already approved for other medical uses. The approval lifecore was seeking this time was specifically for its use in pelvic surgery to prevent adhesions. If it doesn't get approved, it would simply mean that they can't sell it/advertise it for adhesion prevention (in this country), but could still market it for its other uses. The panel recommended against it (as I understand) because Lifecore hadn't done it's statistics correctly, according to FDA standards, so there wasn't statistical proof that it made any significant difference for the prevention of adhesions. According to Dr. Wiseman, it was lifecore's problem, not the FDA'S. But intergel is way beyond the research lab stage. It has already been approved for use in Europe a couple of years ago so has passed clinical trials there. It has already been through a laparotomy trial here in the US, (which are the results the FDA panel was looking at) and I don't know if the laproscopic trial is done yet or not. I haven't gotten my copy of the results yet, in any case. I do believe the FDA has our best interests at heart. But even they aren't infallible. Keep in mind that once a drug (and I'm not sure if this works the same with a "device" like intergel) is approved, the FDA has no control over how doctors prescribe it. And even though they are not supposed to make any claims that haven't been tested, it happens. Fenphen is a good example. The two individual drugs that made up fen -phen were both tested and approved separately. It was doctors who started putting them together, and that's when problems developed.