I have been watching the FDA site for the Prodisc approval and have been keeping track of the advisory committee calendar. They have finally posted the calendar for 2006 and the Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Devices panel does not have a tentative meeting date until July of 2006. What is it with these people!! How can they distance themselves from the fact that people are in extreme pain and on disability waiting for the approval of a device that can change their lives! I know that the dates are only tentative but with this panel's record who knows when they might meet again. Now I guess that we have to hope that approval comes without that meeting which I have read could happen. Sorry about the frustration I have allowed to show in this post but I didn't want to put all my hope into waiting for the approval before the panel's meeting.