Here is an ongoing and growing list of doctors in the state who remove mesh, or understand its complications. Many doctors do not, nor do medical associations, which often have ties to Industry.
At the annual meeting of the American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists (AAGL), two leading urogynecologists debated the use of pelvic mesh versus native tissue repair in surgery.
In this Mesh News Desk podcast, Dr. Donald Ostergard talks about how to find a doctor to do pure tissue repair rather than use polypropylene mesh, tests, and treatments for SUI.
Why have hernia surgeries with mesh become the most common repair for 95 percent of procedures? Dr. William Brown weighs in on this Hernia Mesh Insights podcast.
Mesh Medical Device News Desk No matter what stage you are in your journey with polypropylene (PP) pelvic and hernia mesh, this free e-book is a val…
Mesh News Desk continues its interview with leading mesh-removal doctor, Christian Twiss, MD, a urologist at the U of Az.
Biofilm cluster, UC Berkeley. Researchers hope to attack something called biofilms, which house bacterial infection and seem to provide some protection to the bacteria.
The late Dr. Robert Bendavid was a well-known hernia surgeon who in this editorial for the Africa Middle East Hernia Society
Dr. Anthony Visco is Chief of Urogynecology at Duke Univ. Medical Center and President of AUGS. He was interviewed by Mesh News Desk about the groups position on the use of pelvic mesh.
AUGS is the American Urogynecologic Society and it sets the agenda for its 2,000 members who are urogynecologists and on the front line of whether or not to use pelvic mesh.
Last July 2011 when the U.S. FDA issued its most strongly warning notice yet about complications associated with the use of pelvic mesh, doctors began to hear from their patients en masse.
After initially calling problems with synthetic surgical mesh, “rare” the Food and Drug Administration did an about-face and said complications were "not rare" which led to a POP mesh ban.
Mesh News Desk, February 6, 2015 ~ “This is the rocky path,” Judge Joseph Goodwin forecast to a full courtroom Thursday and Friday, if there are not s…
Pat Buchanan from KING TV November 25, 2012 ~ Last June, mesh victim, Pat Buchanan was visited in her Seattle apartment by a television news crew fro...
In the Ethicon June 4, announcement to two courts that it was taking four synthetic vaginal meshes off the market, Ethicon, a division of Johnson & Jo…
Dr. Christopher Walker was facing 10 years in prison for allegedly paying kickbacks concerning pelvic mesh surgeries. Instead, he is being credited for time served and will pay a substantial fine.
