Maria Cardenas, Monday August 18 Courtroom View Network is covering the Massachusetts product liability trial of Maria Cardenas v. Boston Scientific …
The product liability case that could turn the tide for healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson over its controversial transvaginal mesh implants begins Mo...
David Schmidt, FDA hearings September 2011 By David Schmidt Thank you Jane for this opportunity to share my experience as a U.S. hernia patient harm…
Dogs from JH Facebook page Jo Huskey (JH), 54, was implanted with a TVT-O, a vaginal sling made of Prolene mesh, on February 23, 2011. She experience...
By Dan Bolton, Keller, Fishback & Jackson LLP An estimated 50,000 women a year in the United States undergo a hysterectomy (removal of the uterus) o…
Estelle Tasz Hugs Dr. V "Estelle Tasz, 38, sat on the plane heading to St. Louis for her second pelvic mesh removal in as many months. She had surger...
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) grabbed headlines this week for withdrawing from the market power morcellators, manufactured by subsidiary Ethicon, citing “un…
Readers of Mesh News Desk have seen this before. A law firm spends millions of dollars preparing a case for trial. Expert witnesses are deposed and pa...
It's hard to believe when you are having so much (fun? is that the right word?) but Mesh News Desk aka Mesh Medical Device News Desk officially turn…
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Thank you,,, thank you.... thank you! I talked to the FDA today and they say that it could take many months for individuals within the FDA to read a…
Two days before an advisory panel was gathered to look at the controversial medical device called a morcellator, a gynecologist stepped down due to conflict of interest.
Pinnacle Pelvic Floor Repair kit After a two week trial, Boston Scientific won its first product liability trial over transvaginal mesh. The jurors r...
Midnight Wednesday July 30, the opportunity ends to weigh into the FDA concerning the reclassification of POP mesh to class III or a high-risk devi…
The two week trial of Diane Albright v. Boston Scientific d/b/a Mansfield Scientific, Inc. and Microvasive, Inc. is expected to go to the jury Monday,...
Jury selection August 22. Pelvic mesh trial to start August 25. TVT-O from TVT Mums website The case of Huskey v. Ethicon (Johnson & Johnson) has su…
A company that produces transvaginal mesh for a major manufacturer is setting aside $180 million for transvaginal mesh cases. As of this writing, pe...
Linda Gross testifies Congratulations Linda and Jeff Gross! It was a year ago February that Linda and Jeff Gross of Watertown, South Dakota were aw…
Fantastic researcher and friend, Suzanne McClain has always been the most competent person in digging through the U.S. Food and Drug data on the origins of mesh.
Photo from NYT Texas has had an inquiry into mesh manufacturers, specifically Johnson & Johnson, for two years and nine other states have joined in. ...
Judge Diane M. Kottmyer Today was Day One for opening arguments in the trial of Diane Albright v. Boston Scientific being heard in Middlesex Co. Supe...
WFAA's Janet. St. James WFAA-TV's reporter Janet St. James has been on the mesh story for years and broke a story today that the Texas Attorney Gener…
Dr. Shlomo Raz, UCLA Urology “I have removed more than 900 mesh for complications in the last 5-6 years. Translabial ultrasound is an important adju...
Heirloom tomatoes, Florida Welcome to Mesh Medical Device News Desk, also known as Mesh News Desk (MND). It is a long hot summer and so far those man…
Noni Wideman The letter below is from Noni Wideman, researcher extraordinaire! and long time contributor to Mesh News Desk and her own Links on Mesh…
Estelle at UCLA Estelle Tasz calls her home “organized chaos.” The 37-year old mother of four is home now after more than one month in Los Angeles w...
Carmel Berry and her family, Auckland, New Zealand New Zealand petitioners and co -authors Charlotte Korte and Carmel Berry will present in person t…
Remember the Stories of Anger series from a couple of years ago? Read it here. Women were speaking out and expressing their frustration with the medic...
The #NotOneMore campaign is a Public Service Announcement sponsored by the Mesh Warrior foundation for the Injured. Its mission is to raise awareness…
Reporter Janet St. James tells viewers in the Dallas, Texas area that the costs of mesh injuries are enormous and YOU the taxpayer are picking up the ...
Anonymous woman, WikiCommons A lovely woman called me this afternoon. Her suggestion for a Friday effort and beyond!! She can’t be identified but sh...
While mesh-injured Americans have been trying to raise the profile on their injuries and the fact that mesh use is ongoing in this country, Scottish w…
I recently was asked how I started with mesh as a topic for reporting. I'm not mesh-injured myself. The reader wanted to know if I had a family member...
From BBC News One day after one of the country’s health boards voted to ban the use of transvaginal mesh use in that country, Scotland’s Health Secr…
Elains Holmes testifies After an effective campaign where women spoke directly to a Scottish Parliamentary Committee, a Scottish Health Board has dec...
Today’s story from the BBC shows women in Scotland implanted with pelvic mesh are making front page news and making headway in their fight to raise aw…
TVT-O from TVT Meshed Up, UK Editorial- Jane Akre, MND - In July 2011 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a Safety Communication that ...
April 24, New Brunswick NJ Tensions are beginning to get strained over the extremely long wait for justice for the mesh- injured. Welcome to Mesh Ne…
This Mesh News Desk reader has an important point... do not go to a doctor's appointment without a person who understands mesh complications and is o...
Today Corporate Action Network launched what is planned to be the first of a 50 state campaign to urge the Attorneys General of all 50 states to inves…
By Dan C. Bolton, Of Counsel, Keller, Fishback & Jackson LLP Recently, Endo Pharmaceuticals announced that it had reached a settlement...
Wanda- Mesh Survivor tells MND, "The one way I know how to describe it is “suicidal” That's stabbed from the inside."
TVT Secur, from MegaMed Service, ru While details of the settlement have not been made public, Mesh News Desk has learned that three cases naming a s...
SPONSORED CONTENT The Bell Law Firm Continues Investigations into Pelvic Mesh Injuries as American Medical Systems Agrees to Settlement The product...
Seems a bit strange if you visit these websites particularly Ethicon and you try to access SUI and POP products, you get an access denied message. …
*This Just In* Late this afternoon, Endo Health Solutions announced it had reached an agreement with several law firms to settle in principle about 2…
Welcome to Mesh News Desk! Our friend and associate Linda K. has declared May 1 Mesh Awareness Day and has come up with a wonderful campaign full of B...
Prolene mesh *NEW* Readers of Mesh News Desk understand that the Food and Drug Administration has allowed the polypropylene-based material onto the...
BY MARION SCOTT SUNDAY MAIL The UK's Labour’s health spokesman Andy Burnham has accused the Scottish Government of failing women affected by the mesh…
A Mesh News Desk thoughtful reader has this to say about the Position Statement from the American Urogynecology Society (AUGS). See background story ...
Robert Fish, Estelle Tasz, Terri Rogers, Hope Pagano, A. Melman It was not an easy trip for this mesh-injured group to make to New Brunswick, New Jer…
Check out this video from Andy Stepanian of Fitzgibbon Media who did an amazing job. Thank you Andy!! What a group this was....PLEASE SHARE https:...
Jane Akre, Robert Fish, Estelle Tasz, Hope Pagano, Teresa Rogers It has been many years since the mesh injured in this community have felt this empow…
April 23, 2014 ~ Huffington Post Live today interviewed Estelle Tasz and Jane Akre about our unprecedented appearance at the Johnson & Johnson shareho...
Prolene mesh Plaintiff Richard McLaughlin filed his lawsuit in California's Central District last February. Although his mesh, made by Johnson & Joh…
Carmel Berry- Mesh Down Under Mesh Down Under by CARMEL BERRY 5 April 2014 With the plethora of on-line petitions making their way onto social networ…
BREAKING NEWS !! TVT-O from TVT Meshed Up, UK The trial of Linda Batiste v. Ethicon concluded April 3, 2014, just before 6pm central time with the ju...
Aaron Horton- Mesh Warrior, and Linda Batiste, April 2014, Dallas The trial in the case of Linda Batiste v. Ethicon came to a conclusion after more t...
Aaron Horton, the Mesh Warrior As the case of Batiste v. Ethicon wraps up in a Dallas courtroom on Wednesday, April 2, 2014, Aaron Horton observes t…
Cute baby pig Finally spring is upon us, well almost, and many of you are sick of the freezing cold and the freeze-out by the media to this important...
Sprint Fidelis wire Using documents that recently came to light, Harvard researchers have traced a troubling approval process within the Food and Dru…
Prolene mesh "Cathy" continues her observations from a Dallas courtroom where 64-year-old L.B. is facing multi-billion dollar healthcare giant Johnso...
It doesn't seem like it was that long ago when the issue of polypropylene mesh used for surgery was known by a few people. Truth in Medicine was proba...
The Honorable Ken Molberg **Editors Note ** This is a rewrite from yesterday to incorporate afternoon observations. Thanks to "Cathy" a mesh-injured…
Thomas Cartmell, Wagstaff, attorney for Batiste Thursday’s transcript in the Linda Batiste v. Ethicon shows a contentious back and forth between Thom…
Aaron Horton Most of Mesh News Desk readers are familiar with The Mesh Warrior, Aaron Horton has been spending some time in the Dallas courtroom to...
Today, March 26th, a consumer group, Corporate Action Network (CAN) called on the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate Johnson & Johnson for d…
by Aaron Leigh Horton Aaron and Linda Aaron Leigh Horton arrived in the Dallas courtroom this morning, Monda,y March 24, to continue witnessing the ...
Aaron Horton, the Mesh Warrior Aaron Horton has spend her second day in the Dallas Courtroom where Linda Batiste is attempting to hold Ethicon, a di…
Mesh News Desk correspondent Aaron Horton is sitting in this Dallas courtroom where the first state case since Linda Gross is being heard against Ethi…
by Aaron Leigh Horton This is the most difficult story I’ve ever set about to write, and it will likely be a difficult one for you to read. It is the...
Linda Batiste v John Robert McNabb M.D. and Ethicon Inc., and Johnson & Johnson. Jury selection was completed Monday, March 17, in a Dallas courtroo...
Many readers of Mesh News Desk are asking what has become of the bellwether trials that were supposed to take place in a timely manner. That has clea…
Some of the names in this story may sound familiar, primary among them Dr. Vincente Lucente, who consistently appears as an expert for industry, while he admits to profiting about $1.7M from JNJ.
Hernia Mesh Lawsuit Filed Against Atrium Medical Corporation, By Dan C. Bolton and Farid Zakaria, Keller, Fishback & Jackson LLP
Endo Health Solutions took over American Medical Systems (AMS) in 2011 for $2.9 billion and in doing do inherited roughly 22,000 transvaginal mesh law...
Prolene Mesh March 4, 2014 ~ Coloplast is one of the smaller manufacturers of transvaginal meshes and is one of six of the 53,000 cases consolidated …
Welcome to Mesh News Desk (MND) everyone, aka Mesh Medical Device News Desk, your original source for news on the transvaginal mesh and increasin…
Commentary: What Jurors Never Got to See in the Lewis v. Ethicon Trial In an effort to streamline the proceedings Judge Joseph Goodwin had early on to...
Prolene Mesh This research published in January is available for purchase for $59 from the publication. Note the numbers of complications for mesh ...
On June 14, 2013, American Medical Systems and its parent company Endo Health, entered into a Master Settlement Agreement with an undisclosed number o…
Whether you settle a lawsuit or fight it to the bitter end, it costs a lot to be involved in transvaginal mesh litigation. Endo Health Solutions, the...
This woman who will go unnamed has written her thoughts about the Charleston decision regarding the TVT implant and the judge's decision to cut short …
Judge Joseph Goodwin The plaintiff's side in the first Ethicon trial to be heard in this federal court, had six days before it rested its case. One d...
Plaintiff Lewis, art by Akre Lawyers for the plaintiff Carolyn Lewis (C.L.) wrapped up their defective product case against Ethicon (Johnson & Johnso…
So District WV federal court Its difficult to know what's missing if you are a juror watching this trial. Ten jurors sit in the Charleston, WV court...
So District WV federal court Day Two Lewis v Ethicon ~ Fortunately jurors are allowed to take notes in this federal product liability lawsuits th...
Editor of MND, Jane Akre, offers this coverage as a service to the thousands of women who are mesh-injured and want information on the proceedings, in this case, the first mesh trial for TVT.
It was a big news day in Charleston, West Virginia but not for the first day of a product liability trial that put healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson …
Prolift, sold on eBay The first federal trial accusing healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson (J&J) of making defective transvaginal mesh will begin wi...
Renee Selman from LinkedIn An update now on the missing Johnson & Johnson (J&J) files that were requested by lawyers for the injured in upcoming...
A Mesh Sufferer needed to fly to have a removal surgery... this is what she was told by the friendly folks at Delta Airlines. It may apply to other ai…
We can only hope that spring flowers will soon alert us that milder weather is right around the corner. But that's just a wish. What we do know …
Adam Slater, Mazie, Slater Adam Slater is the attorney who took the Linda Gross case to trial last February where he secured the largest jury award y...
Noni Wideman Writer and researcher Noni Wideman has been at it again, uncovering the links to many autoimmune diseases that seem to plague mesh-impl…
Richard Howden at Telluride Film Festival 2011 Richard Howden My name is Richard Howden. I got a Hernia while working in No...
THE 510(k) PROCESS – SAFETY FORGOTTEN By Dan C. Bolton, Of Counsel, Keller, Fishback & Jackson LLP The 510(k) process is relied upon by the medical…
Reporter Russell Mokhiber has just filed a story on transvaginal mesh and the Mesh News Desk. Russell is a long-time established reporter who is not a...
Dr. Amy Reed was scheduled to undergo a common surgery to remove fibroids. Little did her doctor know hidden cancer would be released by the medical device, which eventually killed her.
The Mesh Warrior, Indigogo Campaign Mesh New Desk is friends with contributor, Aaron Horton, The Mesh Warrior, so named because she advocates on beha…