May 7, 2013 ~ The Marion Carpenter v American Medical Systems product liability trial is set to begin in San Bernardino County California on May 13. Carpenter has filed a medical malpractice action against her doctors and a products liability action against American Medical System. She is represented by Stewart Albertson of Albertson & Davidson
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April 16, 2013 ~ We generally don’t discuss politics on MDND because the community of medical device-injured patients is united by the common denominator of pain and a sense of injustice. Everything else is secondary. But I’d like to share some thoughts about the movements underway in the country as I just returned from Mass
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April 3, 2013 ~ Dr. Anthony Visco is Chief of Urogynecology at Duke Univ. Medical Center and President of AUGS. The American Urogynecologic Society (AUGS) was founded in 1979 and is a professional organization of 1,400 physicians and allied health professionals who care for women with pelvic floor disorders, specifically pelvic organ prolapse (POP) and
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March 29, 2013 ~ In September 2011, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration convened a panel of experts to try and get a handle on the concerning number of complications the agency was receiving about surgical mesh used to treat pelvic organ prolapse (POP) and stress urinary incontinence (SUI). The experts suggested that because of the
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February 13, 2014 ~ Yesterday, Tuesday, February 12, the case rested in the Linda Gross v. Ethicon trial. Linda Gross, 43, alleges that the Ethicon manufactured Prolift system, a permanent medical device implant made by a division of Johnson & Johnson, was defective in its design, manufacture and in instructions for use. Mesh Medical Device
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February 11, 2013 ~ The trial of Linda Gross v. Ethicon started late in the day around noon on Day 21 of the proceedings. Apparently legal arguments were taking place off camera and out of the ear of the jury. The case has now gone to Ethicon to refute the evidence presented so far. Remember
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February 8, 2013 ~ In presenting her case, Christy Jones, the attorney representing Ethicon, had to refute on this Day 20 what has been presented so far. That is why she re-called Dr. Piet Hinoul, the former Medical Director of Gynecare Women’s Health and Urology, now with Wound Care at Ethicon. His job as Medical
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January 31, 2013 ~ Quite simply put the reason we are here at Mesh Medical Device News Desk (MDND) is to calculate the human toll of complications from the unregulated world of medical devices. Most Americans do not understand that the vast majority of medical devices 75-90% approved in the U.S. bypass any safety and
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January 31, 2013~ On this day 14 of the Linda Gross v. Ethicon trial in an Atlantic City, New Jersey courtroom, plaintiff Linda Gross took the stand. Gross, 47, had the Prolift transvaginal mesh implant in 2006 and her story is one of a life permanently altered. Thanks to Courtroom View Network for access to
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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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