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FDA approves new easy to use saliva test for ovulation

HAUPPAUGE, NY, March 14, 2003 - Saliva has been proven as a reliable indicator of ovulation. TCI Optics, an international optics firm, announced today that they have received FDA clearance for a natural device that allows women to view their saliva and accurately predict when they ovulate.

“After five years of clinical preparation and two national studies involving hundreds of women, the results were conclusive,” said Gerald Rausnitz, President of TCI. “We proved, to the FDA’s satisfaction, that the TCI Ovulation Tester was almost a hundred percent accurate in predicting ovulation.”

No bigger than a compact case, the TCI Ovulation Tester is a hand held, reusable microscope that allows women to see a unique pattern in their saliva called ferning. Based on the rise and fall of the hormone estrogen, this ferning pattern looks like frost on a windowpane and develops in saliva around the time of ovulation. A woman simply places a drop of saliva onto the device, lets it dry and looks through the eyepiece.

“This new and exciting system works.” said Kathleen Fry, M.D., president of the American Holistic Medical Association and one of the nation’s leading gynecologists. Another gynecologist, Christiane Northrup, M.D., the author of the best selling book Women’s Wisdom, Women’s Bodies, said, "This simple and empowering tool allows women to learn about and take charge of their own fertility. I recommend it highly."

The tester is reusable and has a replaceable slide wheel so consumers will be able to save their daily saliva patterns. “I will be able to review the patterns with my patients,” said Dr. Fry. “This tester provides women with an ongoing method of understanding when they can conceive. I am excited that there is now a low cost alternative to expensive and inconvenient urine testing.”

TCI is marketing the product for $59.95. Interested consumers should visit the website at www.ovulook.com or call toll free 866 OVULATION (866 688 5284).

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