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Markey ’
Aug 31st, 2012 |
By Jane Akre
Mesh 101: The Basics For reporters looking for a way to get started on the transvaginal mesh story, here are some highlights to shortcut your research. This is not a lawyer-generated story! There are real women suffering devastating injuries from the use of plastic mesh and it continues today! “We were very shocked and
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Posted in Mesh Reading Room Resource |
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Tags: Abdominal mesh, American Medical Systems, Bard, Covidien, DePuy, Dr. Donald Ostergard, Endo Pharmaceutical, Ethicon, GAO, gynecare, Institute of Medicine, Johnson & Johnson, kugel mesh, Markey, Mentor, metal-on-metal, not inert, Ob Tape, POP, ProteGen, Sound Devices Act, SUI, transvaginal mesh
Jun 14th, 2012 |
By Jane Akre
If you ask the public, most say they want safer medical devices, not more of them. If you ask the patients profiled in Mesh Device News Desk (MDND) they’d say they wished they’d known that the medical devices they received had come with a prominent warning that would have told them what they were in
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Posted in FDA |
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Tags: CDRH, Consumers Union, Markey, MDND, MDUFA, medical device, Shuren, Sound Devices Act
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 2nd, 2012 |
By Jane Akre
February 1, 2012 ~ Bloomberg reports on a bill introduced this week that would put the brakes on the approval of a medical device that claims to be similar to another approved device that’s been recalled or found to be defective. The bill was introduced by Democratic lawmakers including Rep. Edward Markey (D-MA) on
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Posted in Legal News |
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Tags: clinical trials, defective mesh, Markey, medical device recalls, metal hip implants, metal poisoning, PMA, premarket approval, ProteGen, Safety and Efficacy, Sound Devices Act
