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Apr 22nd, 2013 |
By Jane Akre
April 22, 2013 ~ Our patient advocate Linda K. has just written about her operation at UCLA to have a sling implanted made from her own body muscle. See her Three Part Series here. Often women must return multiple times to have consultation, mesh removal surgery, reconstruction and sometimes a new sling implanted made from
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Posted in Your Turn |
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Tags: Dr. Shlomo Raz, fascial sling, Medicare, minimally invasive, polypropylene, reconstruction, sling, SUI
Jan 14th, 2013 |
By Jane Akre
January 14, 2013 ~ During day three of the trial that’s put the spotlight on Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and its transvaginal mesh, Prolift, the primary care doctor for patient Linda Gross outlined the countless procedures she has faced to remove synthetic mesh that continues to cause crippling pain. MDND thanks Courtroom View Network for
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Posted in Legal News |
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Tags: abdominal bloating, botox, Christy Jones, chronic pelvic pain, consumed, Courtroom View Network, cystocele, David Mazie, decitful, defective product, Dr. Clark Likness, dyspareunia, enterocele, Ethicon, immunologic reaction, inflammation, irritation, J&J, Johnson & Johnson, Linda Gross, lydocaine, marcaine, Mayo clinic, Mazie, Mazie Slater, minimally invasive, negligent, nerve pain, pain, pain pump, partial excision, pelvic pain, peritoneal pain, polypropylene, Prolift, pudendal nerve, pudendal neuritis, pudendal pain, quality of life, rectocele, steroid, transvaginal mesh, Watertown South Dakota
Dec 31st, 2012 |
By Jane Akre
December 31, 2012 ~ “I had originally had my surgery scheduled December 2010. I cancelled it because on the internet I saw 1,900 mesh complication complaints.” Hope Pagano, 49, got scared when she saw those reports. The Long Island mortgage broker with a thick New York accent was not going to have her incontinence treated
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Posted in Patient Profiles |
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Tags: ANA test, Anti-DNA test, Burch procedure, C.R.Bard, catheter cap, chemical exposure, complaints, FDA, Gynecare Abbrevo mesh, Johnson & Johnson, July 2011, mesh complication, minimally invasive, sling, Stress urinary incontinence, SUI, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE), Topix page, transvaginal mesh, trichloroethylene (TCE), Urethra
Sep 27th, 2012 |
By Jane Akre
September 27, 2012 ~ “Plastics” said the man to a young Dustin Hoffman in the 1967 film, “The Graduate.” Mr. McGuire: I just want to say one word to you – just one word. Ben: Yes sir. Mr. McGuire: Are you listening? Ben: Yes I am. Mr. McGuire: ‘Plastics.’ Ben: Exactly how do you mean?
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Posted in Media Reports |
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Tags: catheters, medical procedures, medical tubing, minimally invasive, plastic polymers, plastic surgical mesh, polypropylene
Sep 16th, 2011 |
By Jane Akre
SEPTEMBER 16, 2011 – Editors Note: I attended the Food and Drug Administration expert panel convened on September 8 & 9, 2011 to listen to patients and industry as well as surgeons who use pelvic mesh to treat incontinence and pelvic floor weakness in women and hernias in men. All of the injured patients were
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Posted in Patient Profiles |
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Tags: 510(k), American Medical Systems, AMS, Bladder, bladder surgery, bowel, cystocele, depression, FDA Expert Panel, Incontinence, kidney, minimally invasive, rectocele, S.P.A.R.C., sling, surgical mesh, urinary tract infection, urology
