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.
Doctors say their credo is to put patients first. Why then do so many women talk about the
Missing Isdal Woman, Wikicommons Mesh Medical Device News Desk, March 8, 2017~ With nearly 100,000 lawsuits filled in one federal court in West Virgi...
Mesh Medical Device News Desk, July 27, 2018 ~ The fallout from lax federal regulation over medical devices and the harm done to patients, is the fo...
TVT-SECUR from RU website Mesh Medical Device News Desk, August 29, 2017 ~ As the Ebaugh trial continues in Philadelphia, the sixth pelvic mesh case...
