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What is Transvaginal Mesh?

06/1/2015
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Transvaginal mesh is a medical device implanted to treat stress urinary incontinence (SUI) and pelvic organ prolapse (POP) in women. Transvaginal mesh is a semi-permeable barrier implanted into a woman as a reinforcing structure to keep her internal organs in place. The device is known as vaginal mesh because it is now […]

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The Coloplast Mesh Litigation

06/1/2015
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  In 2010, doctors in the United States inserted more than 70,000 mesh devices in patients, threading them through incisions in the vagina to fortify pelvic muscles that failed to support internal organs or to treat incontinence, according to court filings. Sometimes the failure of these devices is masked by other symptoms, […]

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Permanent Injunction Against Medtronic

05/29/2015
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) first approved the Synchromed II Implantable Infusion Pump System manufactured Medtronic, Inc. in 2004. The pump infuses pain medication, Baclofen, through a catheter into a patient’s spine. This medical device is used to treat primary or metastatic cancer, chronic pain and severe spasticity. There […]

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Essure and Bayer Under Fire

05/6/2015
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The FDA recently announced that it is investigating allegations of improprieties in conjunction with clinical trials that were conducted by Bayer and Conceptus with regard to the Essure device, which is utilized in sterilization procedures. Bayer Corporation, a German pharmaceutical giant, purchased Conceptus, the original designer of the Essure device, […]

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Power Morcellator – A Deadly Twist

04/13/2015
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The power morcellator, a surgical device used to mince large masses of tissue inside the body so the material can be extracted through small incisions, has been the center of a debate in the medical community since the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) discouraged its use in April, 2014. The FDA discouraged the use […]

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