A column by local physician Christie Iverson, MD, in the Bismarck Tribune out of North Dakota describes pelvic organ prolapse. Iverson writes that the condition is basically what happens when a woman’s pelvic floor weakens and the vaginal walls protrude, or a weakened uterus descends into the vaginal canal.
According to Iverson, new technology for prolapse surgery known as sacrocolpopexy has made it possible for women to get it corrected “with ...
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A judge recently ordered Johnson & Johnson’s Ethicon division to pay Irish health care products manufacturer Covidien $176.5 million in damages over a patent dispute, Bloomberg reports.
At the conclusion of a non-jury trial, U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven, Conn., ruled that Ethicon infringed three U.S. patents for ultrasonic surgical instruments owned by Covidien.
Ethicon recently suffered another multi-million setback, in the form of an $11.1 million jury ...
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Urinary incontinence can have a number of causes, according to the Mayo Clinic. They run the gamut from temporary causes, such as medication or overhydration; to relatively minor conditions such as urinary tract infection; to relatively serious causes such as bladder cancer.
A number of tests are available to determine the underlying cause, the Mayo Clinic says.
Though it’s a frequently troublesome condition, it’s usually treatable. But some treatments can create problems ...
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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 who says her life has been destroyed by the surgery and wants to stop it from happening to anyone else.”
Mesh ...
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According to a recent study, most women have inaccurate perceptions about the safety and effectiveness of intrauterine devices, Reuters reports.
Researchers surveyed more than 1,600 women between the ages of 18 and 50 who had visited one of four clinics in Pennsylvania, and only about one in five was aware that IUDs are more effective at preventing pregnancy than birth control pills.
Reuters quotes an obstetrics and gynecology professor as saying that ...
continue reading...According to the Mayo Clinic, Bayer’s Mirena intrauterine device, which is inserted into the uterus for long-term birth control, is the only hormonal IUD with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval.
But the Mayo Clinic cautions that it isn’t appropriate for all women, and provides some conditions under which it shouldn’t be used.
The device has generated some health concerns, as evidenced by some lawsuits that users have filed. Plaintiffs claim Bayer overstated the ...
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