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• Vaginal mesh study halted because of health risks
  One criticism that plaintiffs in widespread lawsuits have leveled against transvaginal mesh implants is that the devices were approved without clinical testing. According to a story in the New York Times, researchers actually did attempt a clinical test, but had to discontinue it early because so ma...

• First J&J vaginal mesh case going to court
  Johnson & Johnson is set to face the first of 1,800 cases to go to trial over the company’s vaginal mesh implants, Bloomberg reports. A lawsuit by Linda Gross, 47, will be heard in Superior Court in Atlantic City, N.J. At issue is whether Johnson & Johnson’s Ethicon unit adequately warne...

• Mesh implants prompt class action suit in Australia
  The Australian Broadcasting Corporation reports on a class action lawsuit that Johnson & Johnson faces in Australia over the company’s transvaginal mesh implants. According to the report, the mesh devices have caused “life-changing harm” for a significant number of the women who received t...

• California Jury awards $5.5 million in mesh case
  Christine Scott, a woman awarded $5.5 million for injuries from a transvaginal mesh implant, said she hopes the development will help “get the word out to women,” according to a report on KGET out of California. A California jury ruled this week that C.R. Bard Medical, maker of Avaulta Mesh, is ...

• Jury awards $5.5 million in mesh case
  In the first case concerning transvaginal mesh implants to go to trial, jurors in California ruled that a manufacturer of the devices and a doctor must pay a total of $5.5 million, Bloomberg reports. The damages will go to a woman who was left incontinent and in chronic pain because of injuries caus...

• Mesh implant injures women
  A report in the Salt Lake Tribune concerns 50 Utah women who have joined thousands of plaintiffs nationwide in lawsuits against vaginal mesh manufacturers. The report includes an interview with an unnamed Utah woman in her 50s who had the device implanted in order to treat a leaky bladder. Not only ...

• Johnson & Johnson sold mesh after being ordered to stop
  According to Bloomberg, Johnson & Johnson continued selling a vaginal mesh implant for nine months after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ordered the company to stop. In a letter from August, 2007, the FDA told Johnson & Johnson to halt sales of Gynecare Prolift until the agency decided...

• Sales reps promote dangerous mesh implants
  A story in the Spring, 2012, issue of The Trial Lawyer magazine takes a look at the flaws in the federal approval process that allow dangerous transvaginal mesh kits to be implanted in women, with disastrous results. The article is called “Transvaginal Pelvic Organ Prolapse Kits: The Chronicle of ...

• Johnson & Johnson to pull mesh implants from market
  Johnson & Johnson has agreed to stop selling four types of vaginal mesh implants in response to mesh lawsuits from more than 600 women who claim the devices injured them. According to Bloomberg, the company informed a federal judge in West Virginia that it intends to stop “commercializing” ...

• Bloomberg: J&J sold mesh implant before FDA approval
  According to a Bloomberg report, Johnson & Johnson sold a vaginal mesh implant for three years before the federal Food and Drug Administration approved the device. The report says Johnson & Johnson introduced the Gynecare Prolift device in March 2005 without appropriate clearance. The FDA le...