Drs. Amy Reed and Hooman Noorchashm put a public face on the failures of the U.S. Food and Drug Administrations lacking oversight over medical devices, until she lost her life due to a morecellation.
Months after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned a medical device could spread deadly uterine cancers, many hospitals and doctors are still using them.
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.
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.
FDA-What Are We Waiting For? It's been months since the FDA said a word about mesh, and years since it's known stronger action was needed. Meanwhile, …
SCOTUS, Wikipedia Mesh Medical Device News Desk, June 7, 2017 ~ The pelvic mesh case of Huskey v. Ethicon has been in the courts since 2012. After s...
July 16, 2012 ~Most Americans believe the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does a fairly adequate job at least keeping us safe from dangerous ...
According to a filing in a West Virginia federal court last week, Johnson & Johnson objects to J&J executives being forced to answer questions about mesh particles flaking from pelvic mesh.
