Welcome- Why We’re Here

Why We’re Here ~ Putting a Face on Adverse Events

Apr 19th, 2013 | By
Why We’re Here ~ Putting a Face on Adverse Events

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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Why We Are Here ~ To Put a Face on Adverse Events

Jan 31st, 2013 | By
Why We Are Here ~ To Put a Face on Adverse Events

January 31, 2013 ~ Quite simply put the reason we are here at Mesh Medical Device News Desk (MDND) is to calculate the human toll of complications from the unregulated world of medical devices. Most Americans do not understand that the vast majority of medical devices 75-90% approved in the U.S. bypass any safety and
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2013 The Year of Peace and Hope

Dec 31st, 2012 | By
2013 The Year of Peace and Hope

December 31, 2012 ~   Dear Readers~ It’s been an honor to get to know you these past 18 months, though I wish it were under different circumstances.  Here’s wishing you peace and healing during 2013~   I hope to meet you all one day soon. In Health!       Thank you~ Jane Akre  
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Mesh Medical Device News Desk: What’s New

Sep 18th, 2012 | By
Mesh Medical Device News Desk: What’s New

Welcome to Mesh Medical Device News Desk We’ve been a little more than a year since we first established this website and from the traffic, comments and phone calls it appears the number of mesh-injured folks keeps rising. There isn’t a day that goes by when I don’t hear from someone who is desperate for
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Mesh / Medical Device News Desk

Oct 19th, 2011 | By
Mesh / Medical Device News Desk

Thanks for stopping by. Many years from now the public will probably look back and say “They put permanently implanted medical devices in people without any scientific review for safety? ” By then it may seem a perfectly normal question, but for now, Mesh/Medical Device News Desk (MDND) is devoted to telling the stories of
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We hope you find this a helpful resource. National News Editor, Jane Akre, began MDND with the hope of providing the latest news, information and perspective from the regulatory, industry and patient point of view, something that goes under-reported in much of the coverage of medical devices. The public is just now becoming aware that many devices do not undergo the same scrutiny as prescription drugs and are instead grandfathered in under an FDA loophole that has gone largely unchanged since the 1970s. As a result, patients become the post-market clinical trial subjects, and many suffer devastating and permanent injuries.