Tina Burris, implanted with two transvaginal meshes made by Johnson & Johnson (Ethicon) will have her defective product day in a Toledo, Ohio courtroom beginning in July.
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.
Why is the leading urogynecology organization saying that SUI mesh is not a problem where there have been thousands of defective product lawsuits?
Real Housewife, Erika Jayne Girardi, gave the green light to release 52 transvaginal mesh cases to be handled by other firms after Girardi Keese was forced into bankruptcy proceedings.
Jan Urban has been reaching out online to other mesh-injured women for a decade trying to raise awareness about mesh injuries.
Despite thousands of product liability, lawsuits filed against American Medical Systems, a former executive of the company would like to market two incontinence pelvic meshes.
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.
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.
Mesh News Desk chats with plastics expert, Chris DeArmitt, who lent his credibility as a polymer scientist to a May 2018 60 Minutes story on polypropylene mesh implants, and sourcing the plastic.
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.
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Many readers were led to their first mesh implant by an insurance provider, the very companies that are now denying women support to have a mesh-expert address their complications.
Vada Mae Smith, had a polypropylene mesh implant to treat incontinence. The last 16 years of her life were a living hell of pain and infection. Now her daughter is fighting J&J on behalf of her mom.
Mary Dixon, the woman who was fighting for her late mother, attempting to take her wrongful death claim against J&J over its pelvic mesh, to court, will have to proceed with no legal help.
Members of the Mesh Awareness Movement (MAM) are featured in the new documentary, The Bleeding Edge, which premiered in NYC in April 2018, highlighting women's medical devices that harm.
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.
During the opening day of the Elizabeth Hrymoc v. Ethicon defective product trial, her lawyer said the Prolift mesh was a "stupid idea", and others agree.
Johnson & Johnson is involved in three high stakes health product mass tort cases and plaintiff lawyers allege the company is involved in questionable tactics.
It's been more than a year since it was notified, but now the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it has no problem with Boston Scientific sourcing polypropylene for mesh from Chinese smugglers.
Wealth and Status, Reputation/Ego listed as Key Values for doctors using an Ethicon/ Gynecare TVT polypropylene pelvic mesh by the manufacturer to push its products in Australia.
Nonie Wideman, Contributor Mesh Medical Device News Desk, July 21, 2017 ~ Canadian, Nonie Wideman, is a survivor of medical complications from synth…
Court documents reveal to MND all of the chemicals used to make most polypropylene mesh, whether hernia or pelvic.
Consumer advocate Ralph Nader interviews Dr. Robert Bendavid on hernia mesh and Jane Akre, editor of Mesh News Desk on the hundreds of thousands of patient injuries that are going unrecognized.
This writer, implanted with Caldera Medical's transvaginal mesh, is one of the 4,000 women facing Caldera in defective product litigation.
Transobturator tape used to treat incontinence, has twice the risk of re-operation when compared to a TVT placement. The two meshes are both currently used as a permanent device to treat incontinence.
The medical device industry is very concerned following an Institute of Medicine report that the fast-track system for getting devices on the market should be abolished.
Mesh Medical Device News Desk, October 16, 2016 ~ AUGS Prolapse Consensus Conference Announced. Patient Advocates work with industry for change, they tend to be industry-friendly patient groups. …
Mark Bello, of Lawsuit Financial Corp, Farmington Hills, Michigan has been a trial lawyer for 35 years, spending the past 13 of those operating a ful...
Dr. Peggy Pence, Courtesy CVN January 22, 2013 ~ Much thanks to Courtroom View Network for access to the live court proceedings and graphics shown t...
