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 of the biggest manufacturers of pelvic mesh products. They’ve been consolidated in a federal court in West Virginia, ...
continue reading...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 lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson over vaginal mesh implants made by the company’s Ethicon subsidiary is closer to 4,000.
Vaginal mesh implants are supposed to treat urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse, which ...
continue reading...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 receiving the device, and had to quit her nursing job because of the chronic pain that it caused her.
Such complaints ...
continue reading...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 razors were slicing her organs.”
The story says a sharp edge of the mesh also cut her boyfriend during sex. Although Barton ...
continue reading...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 after she had a Gynecare Prolift device, manufactured by Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Ethicon, implanted in 2006.
Her case, being ...
continue reading...When you’re getting treatment for urinary incontinence, your doctor is likely to ask you a series of questions, according to the Mayo Clinic.
The clinic has compiled a list of those probable questions, so patients can be prepared for them and have their answers ready.
The Clinic acknowledges that urinary incontinence can be a troubling and inconvenient condition that obliges patients to make adjustments to their lifestyles in order to compensate for ...
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