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• $3.35M mesh award gets international attention
  A New Jersey jury’s decision to award $3.35 million to a woman who was injured by one of Johnson & Johnson’s vaginal mesh implants is getting international attention, according to a story on CTV News out of Canada. The jury’s decision came at the end of the first trial in thousands of laws...

• Mesh implant forces woman to be celibate
  A story in the Philadelphia Inquirer about an ongoing lawsuit concerning vaginal mesh implants tells the story of a woman who is no longer able to have sex with her husband because of chronic pain from one of the devices. The story says more than 6,000 federal lawsuits have been filed against some o...

• Mesh verdict the first of 4,000 cases
  According to a story in the Philadelphia Inquirer, a woman awarded $3.35 million in a case against Johnson & Johnson over the company’s vaginal mesh implant represents the first trial of 1,200 similar lawsuits in New Jersey – where Johnson & Johnson is based. But the total number of laws...

• Jury awards $3.5 million in vaginal mesh case
  A New Jersey jury has awarded a woman $3.5 million in the first verdict of more than 2,100 lawsuits over a vaginal mesh implant manufactured by Johnson & Johnson’s Ethicon unit, Bloomberg reports. Linda Gross of South Dakota, the 47-year-old plaintiff, said she needed 18 operations after recei...

• Mesh implant ‘felt like razors’
  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 raz...

• Jury deliberating in vaginal mesh trial
  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 af...

• More than 6,000 federal mesh lawsuits filed
  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 p...

• Lawyer: No consideration given for vaginal mesh removal
  The lawyer representing a woman in a trial over vaginal mesh implants said manufacturer Johnson & Johnson failed to consider a crucial question concerning the devices — how they could be removed if they cause complications. As it turned out, the complications affected a number of women. Th...

• Vaginal mesh wasn’t approved when it was implanted in woman
  When Linda Gross of South Dakota had a Gynecare Prolift medical device implanted in 2006, it didn’t have FDA clearance. During her trial against manufacturer Johnson & Johnson, Gross’ lawyer testified that the doctor who performed the operation was unaware of that fact. According to an artic...

• J&J official: Company knew mesh devices were dangerous
  During a trial over vaginal mesh implants, a Johnson & Johnson official testified that the company was well aware the medical devices were dangerous before putting them on the market in 2005. In the first of 1,800 such lawsuits to go to trial, a 47-year-old South Dakota woman named Linda Gross i...