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First Canadian Transvaginal Mesh Case Filed

Nov 9th, 2011 | By
First Canadian Transvaginal Mesh Case Filed

NOVEMBER 9, 2011 – The first of  many more expected lawsuits was filed this week in Canada in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice naming defendant Johnson & Johnson, manufacturer of transvaginal synthetic surgical mesh. Share this:

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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.