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 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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By David Spellberg, MD As a Urologist, I have read about horrible complications such as bleeding, abdominal pain, perforated organs, and sexual dysfunction associated with certain types of mesh products and some of the terrible suffering of mesh patients. The Food and Drug Administration issued two warnings, one in October of 2008 and another in
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February 13, 2014 ~ Yesterday, Tuesday, February 12, the case rested in the Linda Gross v. Ethicon trial. Linda Gross, 43, alleges that the Ethicon manufactured Prolift system, a permanent medical device implant made by a division of Johnson & Johnson, was defective in its design, manufacture and in instructions for use. Mesh Medical Device
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by KATHY L. [Editors Note* Kathy L is not the real name of this author. She is involved in litigation and chooses to remain anonymous at this time. ] January 29, 2013 ~ Last June, Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Ethicon informed a judge in West Virginia of its intention to discontinue sales of four vaginal mesh
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by Deb Contestabile, October 2012 I was reading the FDA alert from July 2011, (yeah, I have strange hobbies lately) and this part gets me. It says: “from Jan. 01, 2008 through Dec. 31, 2010, the FDA received 2,874 additional reports of complications associated with surgical mesh devices used to repair POP(Pelvic Organ Prolapse) and
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It is amazing that Linda has the strength to be a patient advocate. With her own mesh removal surgery one month away, she still listens to women daily talk about how they seek treatment which is made difficult and even impossible. Delay and deny seems to be the standard operating procedure. Often doctors not only
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Linda spends more time than she should helping other women. More time because she herself is injured by transvaginal mesh and counting the days until an appointment with Dr. Raz at UCLA to begin the removal process. Still she takes the times to patiently talk to and even cry with women who contact her through
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Because so many women have discovered Dr. Shlomo Raz at UCLA, who is perhaps the best at mesh removal surgery in the world, he is backed up for six months. Many women simply cannot wait. Teapapers blog talks to these women almost every day and write on her blog about those conversations. “Yesterday morning as
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August 9, 2012, by Amy Gezon ~ In the weeks preceding the first landmark settlement against the manufacturers of surgical mesh implants used in the treatment of pelvic organ prolapse (POP) and stress urinary incontinence (SUI), the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) (here) published an article promoting the prophylactic use of mesh slings at
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