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Apr 30th, 2013 |
By Jane Akre
April 30, 2013 ~ One year ago, Teresa Hughes made history by turning in a petition on behalf of a number of women suffering mesh complications in the United Kingdom (UK) to 10 Downing Street, the home of the Prime Minister. Hughes founded The Meshies United Group in the UK. See back story here. She
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Posted in Op-Ed |
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Tags: failure of duty, Food and Drug Administration, Meshies United Group, Tension-Free Vaginal Tape, Teresa Hughes, TOT, trans obturator tape, TVT, UK mesh complications. FDA
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
Jun 21st, 2012 |
By Jane Akre
June 20, 2012 ~ With all of the bad news about vaginal mesh (see Patient Profiles) and the thousands of lawsuits that have been filed by women who claim life-altering complications, a story like this is a glaring departure and deserves a closer look. Bloomberg reports on a newly published study that says the Johnson
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Posted in Medical News |
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Tags: ., American Urogynecologic Society, AUGS, bladder perforations, bleeding, Bloomberg, cheryl iglesia, Dr Wei, Ethicon, Gynecare TVT sling, incomplete bladder emptying, Incontinence, Johnson & Johnson, New England Journal of Medicine, tension-free tape, TVT, vascular complications
Apr 30th, 2012 |
By Jane Akre
It will be interesting to watch how Alex Gorsky, 51, handles his new job and all that comes with it. As of April 26, he is in charge of Johnson & Johnson (J&J) as its Chief Executive Officer. He also inherited a massive number of lawsuits from surgical mesh and defective metal hip devices.
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Posted in Media Reports |
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Tags: Alex Gorsky, ASR, Ethicon, FDA, Gynemesh, J & J, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Johnson & Johnson, medical device, medical device recalls, metal-on-metal hips, Novartis, polypropylene, prolene, Risperdal, Secur, surgical mesh, transvaginal mesh, TVT
Apr 30th, 2012 |
By Jane Akre
Petition Delivered to 10 Downing Street I would like to introduce myself. My name is Teresa Hughes The Owner and Founder of The Meshies United Group in the United Kingdom. I originate from Liverpool, Merseyside, England the home of The Beatles and Liverpool Football Club. I had an operation for stress incontinence and the mesh
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Posted in Op-Ed |
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Tags: 10 Downing Street, Adverse events, medical device, Meshies United Group, meshiesunitedgroup, MHRA, Parliament, Teresa Hughes, TOT, transobturator, transvaginal mesh, TVT, United Kingdom, vaginal mesh tapes
Nov 9th, 2011 |
By Jane Akre
NOVEMBER 9, 2011 – The first of many more expected lawsuits was filed this week in Canada in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice naming defendant Johnson & Johnson, manufacturer of transvaginal synthetic surgical mesh. Share this:
Posted in Legal News |
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Tags: American Medical Systems, gynecare, Jane Dowdall, Johnson & Johnson, Ontario, Paul Miller, TVT, TVT-O, Will DAvidson
