J.S. will finally have her day in a Dallas Court in February. Her Abbrevo implant allegedly caused her nerve injury and pain. The doctor is accused of medical malpractice based on negligence.
The Food and Drug Administration cannot possibly understand just how widespread mesh complications are unless you report to the agency. Mesh patient advocate, Jen Snowden, tells you how.
Reports on the Essure birth control device are still being gathered by the FDA even though the device was taken off the market in late 2018. Essure was another questionable device marketed to women.
If you were injured by pelvic mesh and have received or are waiting for a settlement, your lawyer does NOT want you to know that there is nothing in the litigation that specifies the plaintiff pays.
Mesh Medical Device News Desk, March 3, 2020~ This is just the beginning of compensation being offered to thousands of Australian women implanted per…
AUGS, the American Urogynecologic Society concluded its annual members meeting this month, standing by its commitment to the use of polypropylene mesh, despite the many injuries reported.
When women were injured by the birth control device Essure, they became the driving force behind the removal of the controversial device from the market.
Besides transvaginal and hernia mesh, a number of other implantable medical devices such as a male sling system is also showing problems for patients.
Pelvic Organ Prolapse (POP) polypropylene mesh, which has injured so many, has finally been reclassified as "High Risk" after giving industry another 30 months until moving it from moderate risk.
In some mesh-implanted patients, an autoimmune response is incited. There are far too many cases to be...
The story of polypropylene mesh and whether it was sourced from China from a substandard facility to make device implants is the subject of a profile on 60 Minutes.
Not surprisingly, Boston Scientific is reacting negatively to the story that 60 Minutes aired last night questioning whether the company sourced counterfeit polypropylene from China.
AUGS recently became aware that, on Sunday, May 13th, "60 Minutes" will be airing a segment on mesh injuries. The president of AUGS made sure surgeons knew how to address anxiety from patients.
The last years of her life were spent educating and sharing on social media, sharing the life she had before her pelvic mesh implant failure.
Court documents reveal to MND all of the chemicals used to make most polypropylene mesh, whether hernia or pelvic.
Breast Implants, particularly textured variety, have been linked to biofilm and small cell lymphoma.
The polypropylene resin material that is used to make mesh used to make hernia and pelvic mesh is not supposed to be implanted in the body, according to a safety sheet with the raw material.
The president of the American Urogynecologic Society admits some doctors are not up to speed before urogynecologists attending the annual AUGS meeting, while he also denigrates the anti-mesh movement.
This story originally ran last March 2016, but it is appropriate as the organization, the American Urogynecologic Society begins its annual conference this week in Denver.
Questions have been raised by readers - Is my doctor receiving funds from the industry that makes the mesh or medical devices he or she is using?
Kathleen, not her real name, suggests to Mesh Medical Device News Desk readers what you should ask the doctor before you have your pelvic mesh removed.
Failed Pelvic Mesh to be Used to Lift Breasts According to its patent application filed by one of the founding fathers of pelvic mesh.
Dr. Greg Vigna, MD, JD, is both a doctor and a lawyer who is directing his expertise as a traumatic injury specialist now to pelvic mesh injuries, specifically nerve injuries.
Using Plastic for Permanent Implants may not have been the most biocompatible choice of industry, especially when you consider a lifetime of contact with bodily fluids.
Please help ProPublica put a face on patient harm. The nonprofit news organization continues to report on patient harm from largely unregulated medical devices.
Mesh Medical Device News Desk, October 21, 2017 ~ The trial of four women, implanted with Boston Scientific's Pinnacle mesh, was held in a Miami cour…
FDA Office of the Commissioner, Silver Spring, MD Medical Device News Desk, October 20, 2016 ~ The system is supposed to be transparent. Medical de…
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…
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…
