A story in the Philadelphia Inquirer includes an interview with a Georgia woman named Kathy Barton who received a vaginal mesh implant to treat bladder leakage. But she alleges that the implant ended up causing even greater health problems for her, leaving her with chronic pain that “felt like razors were slicing her organs.”
The story says a sharp edge of the mesh also cut her boyfriend during sex. Although Barton ...
continue reading...A jury has begun deliberating in the case of a woman seeking $3.38 million for lost earnings and past and future medical expenses connected to injuries from a vaginal mesh implant.
Linda Gross of South Dakota, 47, claims she needed 18 surgeries and chronic pain obliged her to quit her nursing job after she had a Gynecare Prolift device, manufactured by Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Ethicon, implanted in 2006.
Her case, being ...
continue reading...When you’re getting treatment for urinary incontinence, your doctor is likely to ask you a series of questions, according to the Mayo Clinic.
The clinic has compiled a list of those probable questions, so patients can be prepared for them and have their answers ready.
The Clinic acknowledges that urinary incontinence can be a troubling and inconvenient condition that obliges patients to make adjustments to their lifestyles in order to compensate for ...
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In a bipartisan effort, U.S. Senators have reintroduced legislation banning a pharmaceutical industry practice that keeps lower-cost medications away from patients who need them. The practice, commonly called “pay for delay,” occurs when one drug company pays another to delay introducing a less-expensive generic version of a medication.
According to Reuters, both American and European anti-trust regulators have long criticized the practice. It recently came to the forefront again after European ...
continue reading...A story in the Philadelphia Inquirer says more than 6,000 federal lawsuits have been filed against some of the biggest manufacturers of pelvic mesh implants. Plaintiffs claim that the devices have caused medical problems including infections and chronic pain.
The story includes an interview with a patient named Susan Harrison, a kindergarten assistant who had to miss a lot of work when she suffered a string of ...
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European regulators are accusing Johnson & Johnson of illegally paying another company to delay the availability of a generic version of a product – in the process denying cancer patients access to a less expensive source of a drug that eases severe pain.
According to a story in the New York Times, the product at issue is a transdermal patch used to deliver the drug fentanyl through the skin. Antitrust authorities ...
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