Posts Tagged ‘
hysterectomy ’
Feb 20th, 2013 |
By Jane Akre
February 20, 2013~ When CTV News (Canadian Television) did a story last April on transvaginal mesh injuries, the number of women coming forward stunned the reporter and producer. So the network did a follow-up Tuesday, February 19. Medical/Health Reporter Avis Favaro (background here) and producer Elizabeth St. Philip found more women speaking out to say
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Posted in Media Reports |
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Tags: Avis Favaro, CTV, Dr. Shlomo Raz, hysterectomy, Incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse, pudendal nerve, pudendal nerve damage, transvaginal mesh injuries
Jan 30th, 2013 |
By Jane Akre
January 30, 2013 ~ On this half day of trial in the Linda Gross v. Ethicon case being heard in an Atlantic City courtroom, psychiatrist Dr. Ronni Seltzer was on the stand. She conducted two evaluations of Linda Gross and determined the focus of her life, along with her husband Jeff, is pain that permeates
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Posted in Legal News |
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Tags: complications, Courtroom View Network, defective product, depression, Dr. Ronni Seltzer, dyspareunia, Ethicon, hysterectomy, Linda Gross v Ethicon, Mesh medical Device News Desk, pelvic pain, Prolift, Prolift transvaginal mesh, psychiatry, worthless
Jan 16th, 2013 |
By Jane Akre
January 16, 2013 ~ The worldwide medical director of Ethicon took the stand all day in the trial of Linda Gross v Ethicon in an Atlantic City courtroom. The past president of the Flemish Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology from 2007 to 2008, Piet Hinoul had become the Director of Medical Affairs at Ethicon, a
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Posted in Legal News |
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Tags: Adam Slater, contraction, dyspareunia, erosion, Ethicon, fibrosis, gynecare, Gynemesh, hysterectomy, Johnson & Johnson, Linda Gross, mesh complications, Mesh Shrinkage, pelvic floor repair mesh materials, Piet Hinoul, Project Lightening, Prolapse, Prolift, recurrence, scar formation, shrinkage, soft prolene, UltraPro
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
Nov 5th, 2012 |
By Jane Akre
Teresa Hughes, 61, a resident of Liverpool, England, and mother of two, has made so much noise about defective vaginal mesh that last year she was profiled in the UK paper, The Daily Mail. It started: “Thousands of women have been left severely damaged as a result of an implantable ‘sling’ operation to treat problems
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Posted in Patient Profiles |
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Tags: 510(k), Boston Scientific Halo Sling, comoplications, contingency fee arrangement, defective metal hips, defective vaginal mesh, Eucomed, FDA, Food and Drug Administration, Great Britain. MHRA, gynecologist, health regulators, hysterectomy, Incontinence, industrial silicone, Johnson & Johnson’s DePuy ASR metal hip, lawyers, mesh complications, mesh removal operations, Meshies United Group UK., National Health Service, PIP breast implants, plastic sling medical device, polypropylene material, Polypropylene Mesh, polypropylene plastic mesh hammock-like support, silicone breast implants, solicitors, stress incontinence, substantial equivalent, The faily mail, transvaginal mesh tape, transvaginal tape, TVT, United Kingdom, Urethra, urologist, vaginal surgical tape
Oct 31st, 2012 |
By Jane Akre
Oct 31, 2012 ~ “Kathleen,” not her real name in that she is involved in litigation, wants everyone to understand what a hysterectomy really means. Too often women find out after the fact… Thanks Kathleen!! “It is just so important that a woman knows what exactly is going to happen to them during a hysterectomy.
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Posted in Your Turn |
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Tags: hysterectomy, POP, prolapses, reconstruct, repair, TVT Mesh
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
Feb 3rd, 2012 |
By Jane Akre
Sheri Ragan is playing the waiting game – waiting for a hospital in Ormond Beach, Florida to decide when and if it will take Medicaid so she can have an infected biologic mesh implant removed by the doctor of her choice. At 42, Ragan still doesn’t know how she ended up with six years of
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Posted in Patient Profiles |
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Tags: AlloDerm, bilateral inguinal hernia repair, biologic Lifecell, Ethicon, FDA warning, Halifax Medical Center, Hernia Mesh, hernia patch, hernia repair, hysterectomy, ilioinguinal nerve, Johnson & Johnson, Prolene hernia patch, Prolene Hernia System, prolene mesh
