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Apr 4th, 2012 |
By Jane Akre
A woman who I am planning to do a Patient Profile on called me the other day. She had surgical mesh partially removed at the Cleveland Clinic with urologist, Dr. Howard Goldman, two weeks ago. She was on her way back to the Cleveland Clinic in extreme pain. She had been on the same antibiotic
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Posted in Medical News |
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Tags: Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Shlomo Raz, goldman, Journal of Urology, mesh erosion, mesh extrusion, mesh kits, mesh removal, ostergard, Prolapse, transvaginal mesh
Apr 2nd, 2012 |
By Jane Akre
April 1, 2012 ~ The May issue of Consumer Reports (here) features an investigation into synthetic mesh and artificial hips – medical devices that escape rigorous testing to assure safety. Tens of millions of Americans are living with medical devices and whether a defibrillator, artificial hip or surgical mesh, – 90 percent of those devices
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Posted in Media Reports |
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Tags: Class II, Cleveland Clinic, Consumer Reports, Consumers Union, debilitating injuries, Defective device, Hernia Mesh, mesh kits, moderate risk, safe and effexctive, substantial equivalence, surgical 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
Oct 4th, 2011 |
By Jane Akre
By DENISE JACOBS, CRNA, ARNP SEPTEMBER 9, 2011 Dear Dr. Shuren, Dr Lerner, CDRH members, and Obstetrics and Gynecology Medical Devices Panel, Thank you for inviting us here today so that we can voice our opinions and experiences about transvaginal mesh (TVM) used in pelvic organ prolapsed (POP) and stress urinary incontinence (SUI) repairs.
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Posted in Patient Profiles |
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Tags: female anatomy, mesh erosion, mesh kits, meshies, mutilated, pain, SUI, transvaginal mesh
Aug 26th, 2011 |
By Jane Akre
As a Pelvic Surgeon/Urogynecologist, Dr. Margolis helps women suffering from incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse and a variety of surgical problems involving the female pelvis. He has done mesh removal surgery from his office, Bay Area Pelvic Surgery, in the San Francisco Bay area. Share this:
Posted in Feature, Medical News |
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Tags: baby boomers, Bay Area Pelvic Surgery, complications, contaminated, eroding, hernia, Margolis, mesh kits, migrating, Obstetrics and Gynecology, POP, side effect, SUI, synthetic surgical mesh, vaginal surgery
