Last January 3, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) decided to get tough on transvaginal mesh manufacturers. After noting a five-fold increase in complications among women implanted with the polypropylene mesh to treat pelvic organ prolapse (POP) and stress urinary incontinence (SUI), the FDA asked the mesh makers to […]
Category: Defective Medical Devices
In a white paper about hernia mesh, analyst Winifred S. Hayes of Hayes Consulting helps one client figure out how to save money and be more efficient with their mesh purchases. The problem has been that in the case of hernia mesh, hospitals buy from a number of vendors and […]
Too often it seems that white collar crime pays. That may not be the case for executives of Johnson & Johnson in a couple of high-profile cases moving toward trial. Not only will Ethicon (a division of J & J) be forced to be deposed in the ongoing transvaginal mesh […]
You can buy almost anything on eBay, right? Even transvaginal mesh implants that have been taken off the market. DrugWatch reports that the Bard Avaulta polypropylene mesh has shown up on an eBay auction, including a Plus Posterior mesh. The price? $50. You can buy two Anterior Support System products […]
It is one of the lesser known transvaginal meshes. Coloplast will now become the sixth multidistrict litigation consolidated and the fifth to be heard in the Southern District of West Virginia. The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) on August 6 ordered at least 24 Coloplast federal lawsuits (MDL No. […]
Imagine having a surgery that’s gone terribly wrong, only to discover – too late – that the doctors used a medical device its manufacturer knew could be dangerous, and worse, one that snuck right past the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Couldn’t happen in this country? Wrong. More than 1,000 […]
Virtually all Rejuvenate and ABG II patients have received notice from their doctor that the devices have been recalled. These patients are all now faced with the prospect of a painful and risky revision surgery. Rejuvenate and ABG II victims can basically be placed into three categories. I know. I’ve […]
C.R. Bard Inc. must pay a Bakersfield woman $5.5 million in damages in what promises to be the first of thousands of vaginal mesh injury cases to go to trial. Jurors in a Bakersfield, California state court determined July 20th, that the Avaulta Plus Biosynthetic Support System vaginal implant caused […]
[two_third_last]The more we uncover cases such as this one, the angrier we get. Back in 1992, twenty years ago, an article in The Journal of Arthroplasty, showed that a 76-year-old man implanted with a hip prosthesis made of metals and plastic stimulated an adverse reaction that required the hip to […]
This study comes from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and was reported in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery in July 1991. Researchers studied nine uncemented hip prostheses that had been revised (removed). In four of the nine hips, researchers found tissue discoloration and corrosion at the head-neck junction. […]
