April 30, 2013 ~ One year ago, Teresa Hughes made history by turning in a petition on behalf of a number of women suffering mesh complications in the United Kingdom (UK) to 10 Downing Street, the home of the Prime Minister. Hughes founded The Meshies United Group in the UK.  See back story here.  She
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 April 28, 2013~  Never underestimate the value of love. Even when it involves a corporation. Johnson & Johnson has revealed its new campaign – For All You Love. The campaign features black and white video with sweet sleeping babies and a mother kissing goodnight in an effort to humanize the corporation. Love, “It’s the most
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April 25, 2013~ Once again our prolific patient advocate enlightens and educates women considering traveling across the country to go to University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) to have surgery. This time Linda had reconstruction and the anchoring of her bladder after mesh removal last October. This followup visit is part of the reconstruction that
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April 22, 2013 ~  Our patient advocate Linda K. has just written about her operation at UCLA to have a sling implanted made from her own body muscle. See her Three Part Series here. Often women must return multiple times to have consultation, mesh removal surgery, reconstruction and sometimes a new sling implanted made from
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April 19, 2013 ~ Hello everyone. I’m Jane Akre, the Editor of MDND. No I’m not mesh-injured but I saw the tremendous need to delve deeper into this story as a journalist when it was brought to my attention four years ago. (See more in the About Us page). A lot has happened since then.
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April 19, 2013~ This essay is written by contributor, Nonie Wideman of British Columbia, who has suffered with mesh injuries for years. As a research and writer, Wideman has been a voice of the community of mesh-injured women. MDND supports more open communication between doctors and their patients who are suffering mesh complications.  Thank you
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April 18, 2013 ~ Thanks go out to attorney Harry Bell who is based in Charleston, West Virginia, the location of the federal courthouse that will hear thousands of transvaginal and incontinence surgical mesh cases. He provided MDND with an update on today’s Status Conference on the cases filed against Ethicon (Johnson & Johnson), C.R.
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April 16, 2013 ~ We generally don’t discuss politics on MDND because the community of medical device-injured patients is united by the common denominator of pain and a sense of injustice. Everything else is secondary. But I’d like to share some thoughts about the movements underway in the country as I just returned from Mass
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April 9, 2013 ~  Doctors say their credo is to put patients first.  Why then do so many women talk about the conversations they have with their doctors after they start to feel their implanted mesh is causing complications and not providing a cure?   Across the board doctors say something like this:         “It’s not
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April 9, 2013 ~ Dr. Robert Bendavid  is a well-known hernia surgeon who in this editorial for the Africa Middle East  Hernia Society discusses surgical mesh. Past president and a founding father of the American Hernia Society, Dr. Bendavid has performed thousands of procedures and is presently associated with the Shouldice Hospital in Toronto where the natural tissue, mesh-free,
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