MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SafeStitch Medical®, Inc. (OTCBB:SFES), today announced it has shipped the AMID™ Hernia Fixation Device (AMID HFD™) to over half a dozen medical facilities nationwide, just four months after its launch on April 17, 2012. These facilities include Santa Monica UCLA General Surgery, North Carolina Medical Center, Ohio Hernia Center, New York-Presbyterian and Hernia Center of Southern California. In addition, more than 90 physicians have already operated with the AMID HFD and more than a dozen facilities are in the process of obtaining committee approval to make the AMID HFD available for physicians to purchase.
