Greetings from Nonie Wideman, a survivor of medical complications from Foreign Body Response (FBR) to synthetic medical mesh. I have spent over 15 years advocating for children and families, over twelve of them as a specialized care provider teaching coping and life skills. I had to put into practice myself what I taught after a
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May 3, 2013~ “My name is Cherie Storozinski. I am 50 years old and live in Dauphin, Manitoba, Canada. I am a victim of transvagnial mesh.” That’s how Cherie started her email to MDND. Cherie, 50, had a wonderful life in rural Manitoba, Canada. She and her husband, Curt, live on 20 acres and run
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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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April 19, 2013~ This essay is written by contributor, Nonie Wideman of British Columbia, who has suffered with mesh injuries for years. As a research and writer, Wideman has been a voice of the community of mesh-injured women. MDND supports more open communication between doctors and their patients who are suffering mesh complications. Thank you
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April 9, 2013 ~ Dr. Robert Bendavid is a well-known hernia surgeon who in this editorial for the Africa Middle East Hernia Society discusses surgical mesh. Past president and a founding father of the American Hernia Society, Dr. Bendavid has performed thousands of procedures and is presently associated with the Shouldice Hospital in Toronto where the natural tissue, mesh-free,
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~March 1, 2013 I helped Adam Slater as an expert with what became Gross v Ethicon from early in 2009. My job was to help Mr. Slater make sure Ethicon had produced all its relevant documents. I have the qualifications to do that because I am a veteran researcher and have run product development for
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February 19, 2013 ~ In this first lawsuit to go to trial over whether the Ethicon unit of Johnson & Johnson properly designed the Prolift vaginal mesh implant, nine jurors received instructions this morning from Judge Carol Higbee in the Atlantic City, New Jersey courtroom. Jurors are required to accept the ‘The Charge’ of Judge
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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 18, 2013 ~ Thanks again to Courtroom View Network (CVN) for the courtroom access and images. Dr. Anne Weber was qualified as an expert witness for plaintiff Linda Gross on Thursday. Friday, January 18, was Day 7 of the trial of Linda Gross v Ethicon in Superior Court of New Jersey. The trial is
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