Posts Tagged ‘ David Sawyer ’

David Sawyer Taking his Message to YouTube

Aug 31st, 2012 | By
David Sawyer Taking his Message to YouTube

“I’m not shutting up until they stop murdering women,” says David Sawyer. Sawyer along with his wife Teresa have just formed the nonprofit group TVTNo.org to help women who are suffering financial losses due to the disabling injuries associated with transvaginal mesh. Part of the group’s mission statement is to bring more attention to the
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America Now: Routine Surgery Dangerous for Women

May 14th, 2012 | By
America Now: Routine Surgery Dangerous for Women

May 14, 2012 ~ The syndicated show, America Now, ran a story last week on Teresa Sawyer of TVTNo.org and also the subject of a Patient Profile in MDND. Here is our story that ran last August. In the video story, Routine Surgery Dangerous for Women, Sawyer told reporter Craig Thomas (from WTOL)  they they
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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.