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Bladder ’
Apr 25th, 2013 |
By Jane Akre
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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Posted in Your Turn |
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Tags: Bladder, Dr. Kim, fascial sling surgery, mesh removal, UCLA, Univeristy of California Los Angeles, urology
Jan 22nd, 2013 |
By Jane Akre
January 22, 2013 ~ Much thanks to Courtroom View Network for access to the live court proceedings and graphics shown to the jury. The Prolift surgical mesh did not undergo any FDA approval before it was marketed in March 2005. Last June Ethicon, a division of Johnson & Johnson announced it was removing Prolift and
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Posted in Legal News |
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Tags: 510(k), adhesion formation, Bladder, Courtroom View Network, David Mazie, Dr. Peggy Pence, dyspareunia, erosions, Ethicon, extrusion, fistula formation, Gynecare Prolift, Gynecare Prolift Pelvic Floor Repair System, Gynemesh PS, IFU (Instructions for Use), inflammatory reaction, Johnson & Johnson, Linda Gross v Ethicon, MAUDE Database, mesh removal, nerves, potentiation inflammation, predicate device, Prolift M, Prolift pelvic organ repair mesh, Prolift surgical mesh, scarring that results in implant contraction. Punctures or lacerations of vessels, the danger of pudendal neuralgia, urethra or bowel
Nov 25th, 2012 |
By Jane Akre
November 25, 2012 ~ Last June, mesh victim, Pat Buchanan was visited in her Seattle apartment by a television news crew from KING-TV. They filmed her going through her triathlon gear which she had shelved after she began experiencing synthetic mesh complications in 2011. The story is here. One week later, Buchanan would be going
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Posted in Patient Profiles |
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Tags: abdominally-placed mesh, allergies, Bard Marlex, Bladder, continent, Dr. Shlomo Raz, hysterectomy, Mesh Medical Device News Desk (MDND), mesh removal, mesh victim, Monarc (American Medical Systems), POP. SUI, rectal fissure, transvaginally mesh, UCLA, UCLA urogynecologist surgeon, Urethra
Jun 19th, 2012 |
By Jane Akre
Op-Ed – June 19, 2012 ~ Editors Note- * -As someone who worked in the mainstream news for 25 years I know how it used to work. That was before the 500 channel universe and all eyeballs abandoned newspapers to go online. But the profitable business models for news – both print and broadcast –
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Posted in Op-Ed |
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Tags: Bladder, electrical stimulation therapy, gold standard, Incontinence, kegals, leakage, Polypropylene Mesh, stress incontinence, synthetic surgical mesh, transvaginal mesh, Urethra, urodynamic testing
Apr 22nd, 2012 |
By Jane Akre
“I’m a pretty smart cookie. I’ve tested genius, but trust me I’m at half capacity.” So says 58-year-old Mary Blanks of Erie, Pennsylvania. The Methodist pastor was named Minority Business Woman of the Year for Northwestern Pennsylvania in 1990 as the entrepreneur behind her chain of beauty supply stores, Blanks Beauty & Barber Supplies and
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Posted in Patient Profiles |
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Tags: American Medical Systems, AMS, Bladder, FDA, Incontinence, Monarc subfascial hammock, pelvic organ prolapse, POP, sling, SUI, transvaginal mesh, Urethra, Urogynecologist
Mar 19th, 2012 |
By Jane Akre
MARCH 19, 2012 ~ By Jane Akre A story before I tell this story. I was commissioned to write a 2,100 word piece for the Chicago-based magazine “In These Times.” I had pitched the long-time editor and he said they were very interested. Great I thought. The money wasn’t much but the exposure for an
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Posted in Feature |
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Tags: adulterated, American Medical Systems, Bladder, bladder erosion, Boston Scientific, bowel, C.R.Bard, Consumers Union, Dr. Shlomo Raz, Ethicon, FDA, Food and Drug Administration, Hernia Mesh, hysterectomy, Incontinence, Keeton, Markey, MDND, mesh kits, mesh makers, Mesh medical Device News Desk, misbranded, Multidistrict Litigation, Ob-Gyn, pelvic pain, Polypropylene Mesh, Prolapse, ProteGen Sling, Public Citizen, rectum, Safe Patient Project, Sound Devices Act, Stress urinary incontinence, SUI, synthetic petroleum-basedsurgical mesh, systemic inflammatory response, transvaginal, Truth in Medicine, TVT Prolene, UCLA, Urethra, Urogynecologist, uterus, vagina, vaginal vault, Waxman
Sep 16th, 2011 |
By Jane Akre
SEPTEMBER 16, 2011 – Editors Note: I attended the Food and Drug Administration expert panel convened on September 8 & 9, 2011 to listen to patients and industry as well as surgeons who use pelvic mesh to treat incontinence and pelvic floor weakness in women and hernias in men. All of the injured patients were
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Posted in Patient Profiles |
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Tags: 510(k), American Medical Systems, AMS, Bladder, bladder surgery, bowel, cystocele, depression, FDA Expert Panel, Incontinence, kidney, minimally invasive, rectocele, S.P.A.R.C., sling, surgical mesh, urinary tract infection, urology
Aug 11th, 2011 |
By Jane Akre
Janet Holt, 54, has lived on a Floresville, Texas cattle ranch with her husband for 20 years. The couple saved and scrimped over the years to open a chain of restaurants. Four years ago and days away from opening their fifth restaurant, Janet says she was faced with an unbearable work schedule, building and equipping
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Posted in Patient Profiles |
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Tags: Bladder, erosion, FDA, Holt, mesh, Ob-Gyn, POP, Prolapse, Urogynecologist
