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Gynecare Prolift ’
Jan 29th, 2013 |
By Jane Akre
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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Posted in Op-Ed |
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Tags: 33.6%, bladder injury, bowel injury, difficulty urinating, Dr. Charlotte Owens, Ethicon, FDA, Gynecare Prolift, Johnson & Johnson, July 2011, Mesh Medical DeviceNews Desk, mesh related complications are not rare, mesh-related complications, nerve damage, Prolift, transvaginal mesh, vaginal mesh products
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
Jan 13th, 2013 |
By Jane Akre
January 12~ 2012 Thanks to Courtroom View Network for providing a live feed to MDND. Day two of Linda Gross v Ethicon trial in an Atlantic City court brought an Ethicon engineer to the stand who was presented with a mountain of internal company documents intended to show how safety and efficacy of the Prolift
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Posted in Legal News |
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Tags: 510(k), Adam Slater, cadavers, CANNULAS, Charlotte Owens, chronic pain, Clinical Expert Report, Clinical Study, concept stage, Courtroom View Network, Dr. Michel Cosson, dyspareunia, erosion, Ethicon, failure rate, Groupe TVM, Gynecare Prolift, Gynemesh, Instructions for Use (IFU), Johnson & Johnson, Linda Gross v Ethicon, mesh contraction, mesh removal, obturator, pelvic pain, polypropylene, PP, Product Device Design Safety Assessment (DDSA), Professor Bernard Jacquetin, Prolapse, prolaspse, Prolene Soft mesh, Prolift, recurrence, retraction, Risk Assessment, transvaginal mesh, TVM, TVM procedure.
Jan 8th, 2013 |
By Jane Akre
January 8, 2013 ~ Jurors are being selected today for the first of 1,974 lawsuits to be heard in a New Jersey state court against Johnson & Johnson, maker of the Gynecare Prolift Pelvic Floor Repair System (here) transvaginal mesh. Plaintiff Linda Gross from Watertown, South Dakota and her lawyers argue that Ethicon, a division
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Posted in Legal News |
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Tags: Alex Gorsky, American Medical Systems, Boston Scientific, C.R.Bard, Carol Higbee, Courtroom View Network, Covidien, fraud, Gynecare Gynemesh., Gynecare Prolift, Illegal, Johnson & Johnson, Multidistrict Litigation (MDL), Polypropylene Mesh, Prolapse, transvaginal mesh
Jul 12th, 2012 |
By Jane Akre
Generally speaking, lawyers avoid talking to reporters. But in a July 10 press release (here), Henry G. Garrard III of Blasingame, Burch, Garrard & Ashley, P.C., an Athens, Georgia law firm, recounts what he’s told to Bloomberg News in a June 26, 2012 story (here). The story – how Johnson & Johnson continued to sell
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Tags: American Medical Systems, Bard, Boston Scientific, Ethicon, Gynecare Prolift, Johnson & Johnson, Mesh Medical Device News Desk. multidistrict litigation, Prolift MTM, Prosima, TVT Secur
Jun 4th, 2012 |
By Jane Akre
June 4, 2012 ~ Breaking news! Bloomberg is reporting (here) that Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has requested the paperwork to stop selling four different types of transvaginal mesh in the face of hundreds of lawsuits. The Ethicon unit of J & J told a federal judge in West Virginia that it has requested the official
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Posted in Legal News |
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Tags: 510(k), Bloomberg, Ethicon, FDA, Gynecare Prolift, judge Goodwin, product liability lawsuits, Prolift, synthetic mesh, transvaginal mesh
May 7th, 2012 |
By Jane Akre
May 7, 2012 ~ The date has been set – February 5, 2013 will be the first of what promises to be a series of federal court trials over vaginal mesh injuries in women implanted with synthetic mesh made by C.R. Bard Inc. Multidistrict litigation (MDL) No. 2187 is consolidated before U.S. District Judge Joseph
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Posted in Legal News |
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Tags: Avaulta, Bellwether, C.R.Bard, Ethicon, Goodwin, gynecare, Gynecare Prolift, Multidistrict Litigation
Mar 21st, 2012 |
By Jane Akre
March 21 ~ Bloomberg is reporting (here) that major medical device maker Johnson & Johnson (J&J) sold the Gynecare Prolift surgical mesh for three years before it was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The mesh is now the subject of more than 550 lawsuits, reports Bloomberg. Prolift is a pre-cut mesh
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Posted in Media Reports |
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Tags: 510(k), Bloomberg, defective product, DePuy, FDA, Gary Pruden, Gynecare Prolift, illegal marketing, Johnson & Johnson, lawsuits, MAUDE, MDND, mesh, nonabsorbable polymer, Prolift M, Sheri S. McCoy
