Women are increasingly deciding that their transvaginal mesh implant is causing more complications than it cured and are opting to have it removed, but a new report says the removal procedure may cause a host of injuries to the uterus. Researchers from the Mayo Clinic and Spectrum Health Medical Group […]
Category: Transvaginal Mesh
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 […]
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 […]
Johnson & Johnson’s new CEO, Alyx Gorsky, will not be able to avoid having his deposition taken in preparation for the upcoming transvaginal mesh lawsuits pending before a New Jersey Superior Court. The ruling came down July 19, 2012, one day before a landmark ruling in another mesh case in […]
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 […]
A panel of federal judges will meet on Thursday, July 26, to determine whether it will be necessary to create a sixth multidistrict litigation (MDL), expanding the litigation from the current five vaginal mesh MDLs. Four MDLs are consolidated in Charleston, West Virginia in the U.S. District Court for the […]
Coloplast Corp. has asked the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (“JPML”) to consolidate and transfer all federal cases involving its pelvic mesh device to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia for coordinated pretrial proceeding (known as In re Coloplast Corp’s Pelvic Support System Product Liability […]
You may recall we reported on June 4 that Ethicon, a division of Johnson & Johnson (J&J), announced it was removing four synthetic vaginal meshes from the market – all fall under the Gynecare division – the TVT Secur, Prosima, Prolift and the Prolift+M. An Ethicon spokesman did not call […]
