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stress incontinence ’
Nov 5th, 2012 |
By Jane Akre
Teresa Hughes, 61, a resident of Liverpool, England, and mother of two, has made so much noise about defective vaginal mesh that last year she was profiled in the UK paper, The Daily Mail. It started: “Thousands of women have been left severely damaged as a result of an implantable ‘sling’ operation to treat problems
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Posted in Patient Profiles |
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Tags: 510(k), Boston Scientific Halo Sling, comoplications, contingency fee arrangement, defective metal hips, defective vaginal mesh, Eucomed, FDA, Food and Drug Administration, Great Britain. MHRA, gynecologist, health regulators, hysterectomy, Incontinence, industrial silicone, Johnson & Johnson’s DePuy ASR metal hip, lawyers, mesh complications, mesh removal operations, Meshies United Group UK., National Health Service, PIP breast implants, plastic sling medical device, polypropylene material, Polypropylene Mesh, polypropylene plastic mesh hammock-like support, silicone breast implants, solicitors, stress incontinence, substantial equivalent, The faily mail, transvaginal mesh tape, transvaginal tape, TVT, United Kingdom, Urethra, urologist, vaginal surgical tape
Oct 10th, 2012 |
By Jane Akre
February 3, 2012. That was the day that Deb Contestabile says her health took a downturn from which she has still not recovered. The 46-year-old mother of two boys led a predictable and comfortable life with her husband of almost 22 years who owns a machine shop. They have busy lives with the two boys
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Posted in Patient Profiles |
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Tags: American Medical Systems, Dr. Shlomo Raz, dysplasia, facebook, FDA, ischiopubic, Medical Mesh Legal Support, Mesh medical Device News Desk, Miklos and Moore, Monarc sling, Monarc TOT transobturator tape, not rare, obturator muscle, obturator nerve, osteotomy, pelvic organ prolapse, POP, stress incontinence, SUI, surgical mesh, TVT No, Urogynecologist
Jul 29th, 2012 |
By Jane Akre
July 29, 2012 ~ Johnson & Johnson’s new CEO is on the hot seat. Alex Gorsky must show up to provide a videotaped deposition concerning the upcoming Ethicon transvaginal mesh lawsuits pending before a New Jersey Superior Court. Ethicon is a wholly owned subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. The decision to require Gorsky and two
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Posted in Media Reports |
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Tags: Alex Gorsky, American Tort Reform Association, ATRA, Bill Weldon, C.R.Bard, Ethicon, Ethicon transvaginal mesh lawsuit, Gary Pruden, gynecare, Gynemesh, Honorable Carol Higbee, irreversible injuries, J&J, Johnson & Johnson, Judicial Hellhole, off-label, pelvic organ prolapse, POP, prolene mesh, Prolift, Prolift M, re-operations, Risperdal, Sheri McCoy, stress incontinence, SUI, TVT-O, TVT-S., vaginal mesh
Jun 19th, 2012 |
By Jane Akre
Op-Ed – June 19, 2012 ~ Editors Note- * -As someone who worked in the mainstream news for 25 years I know how it used to work. That was before the 500 channel universe and all eyeballs abandoned newspapers to go online. But the profitable business models for news – both print and broadcast –
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Posted in Op-Ed |
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Tags: Bladder, electrical stimulation therapy, gold standard, Incontinence, kegals, leakage, Polypropylene Mesh, stress incontinence, synthetic surgical mesh, transvaginal mesh, Urethra, urodynamic testing
