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  • Woman writes of ordeal with mesh implant
    Scots newspaper Daily Record recently printed a letter that a woman wrote to Scotland’s health secretary, detailing the health problems she’s endured as a result of getting a vaginal mesh implant. She describes herself as “one of the many, many Scots women whose lives have been devastated by m...
  • Woman thought mesh would be easiest treatment
    A report on News Channel 4 out of Oklahoma tells the story of a woman who received a vaginal mesh implant in the belief that it was the most advanced, minimally invasive technique available to cure her urinary incontinence. Instead, she ended up in extreme pain, and trying unsuccessfully for three y...
  • Plaintiff in mesh case supports European patients
    An American plaintiff awarded $11.1 million in court because of her injuries from a vaginal mesh implant is lending her support to women seeking similar legal redress in Scotland and the U.K., according to a story in the Scots paper Daily Record. The story says scores of women in Scotland have also ...
  • Mesh implants injure women in Scotland
    A story in the Daily Record out of Scotland deals with the plight of Scots women injured after receiving vaginal mesh implants. Hundreds may be “suffering horrendous health problems” from the devices, which are implanted to treat urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse. The story notes th...
  • Mesh manufacturer feeling impact of lawsuit
    Bloomberg reports that Denmark-based vaginal mesh manufacturer Coloplast’s stock dropped the most in almost four years over concerns about lawsuits that patients injured by the implants have filed. The story says a joint status conference is scheduled for lawsuits filed against vaginal mesh manufa...
  • Mesh implant patient launches protest
    CTV Network out of Canada reports on a Manitoba woman who is staging a protest about the vaginal mesh device she had implanted during a hysterectomy in January, 2012. The report shows Christine of Winnipeg getting around with the assistance of a wheelchair and cane, and describes her as “a woman w...
  • Problematic mesh implants were marketed as safer
    A blog entry for the Philadelphia Inquirer notes that vaginal mesh implants, like the kind that recently served as the basis of an $11.1 million jury award in New Jersey, were initially marketed as a safer alternative for women suffering from pelvic organ prolapse. Instead, thousands of patients who...
  • Mesh jury awards $11.1m, says company failed to warn of risks
    Members of a New Jersey jury that awarded a total of $11.1 million to a woman who received a vaginal mesh implant manufactured by Johnson & Johnson’s Ethicon subsidiary did not find a design defect, according to a lawyer for the plaintiff. But they did rule that the company failed to warn the ...
  • Legal troubles for makers of vaginal mesh
    In a blog entry for the Philadelphia Inquirer, writer David Sell points out that two makers of problematic medical devices called vaginal mesh implants recently suffered significant setbacks on the same day. A jury in Atlantic City awarded $7.8 million in punitive damages to a former nurse who claim...
  • Jury awards additional $7.76M in mesh case
    A New Jersey jury has awarded a plaintiff injured by a Johnson & Johnson vaginal mesh implant $7.76 million in punitive damages, in addition to the $3.35 million she was awarded days earlier, Reuters reports. Lawyers for the plaintiff alleged that Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiary Ethicon...
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