Posts Tagged 'complications'

Specialists available to treat urinary incontinence

According to the Mayo Clinic, many health care providers can treat bladder control problems without referring you to a specialist.

But not all primary care providers have the necessary training or experience. And despite the current improved understanding and treatment of urinary incontinence, some doctors consider it an inevitable consequence of childbearing, menopause or normal aging. That belief may make them unlikely to consider treatment.

Another factor to be wary of is ...

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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 responsible for the damages. It’s the first case involving vaginal mesh implants to go to trial, but over 600 more ...

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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 caused by Bard’s Avaulta Plus vaginal implant. Hundreds more lawsuits are pending, alleging that implants made by Bard, Boston ...

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FDA called “sheriff packing a waterpistol”

Amid evidence that Johnson & Johnson continued to sell a dangerous vaginal mesh implant for nine months after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ordered it to stop, some observers are questioning whether federal regulatory agencies are currently able protect consumers.

A Bloomberg story quotes University of Michigan business professor Erik Gordon as saying that the issue points out “the industry’s ability to shrug off FDA enforcement. If companies can get ...

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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 did the device fail to cure problems, but it also caused her constant pain in addition ...

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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 whether the device was “substantially equivalent” to other products on the market. The letter cited the “potential high risk for organ perforation” ...

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