Traci Rizzo, who had an operation to remove pelvic implants, poses for a photograph at her home in Gulf Shores, Alabama July 17, 2015. REUTERS/Michael Spooneybarger By Alison Frankel and Jessica Dye ...

(Reuters) - American Medical Systems, a major defendant in litigation over controversial vaginal mesh devices, is accusing "a pyramid of businessmen, doctors and lawyers" of luring women into ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. A glass box engraved with “Another girl saved by the sling slayer” sits outside the surgeon’s office. A patient was so grateful ...

In a Health Notification issued in October 2008 and updated in July 2011, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned of serious complications associated with transvaginal placement of surgical ...

The future of medicine is often imagined to include some sort of high-tech or shiny device. But many cutting-edge therapies are fundamentally about using and improving upon what the body already has.

Jerri Plummer was at home in Arkansas, watching television with her three children, when a stranger called to warn that her life was in danger. The caller identified herself only as Yolanda. She told ...

Collette Stevenson has welcomed a new treatment for mesh removal which could see women travelling to the States. Thousands of woman across the UK were left with permanent injury and in crippling pain ...

Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn have charged a physician and the owner of a medical consulting firm over a scheme to persuade women to have their pelvic mesh implants surgically removed to bolster the ...

Colorado Springs resident Robin Bowen was in her 40s and mom to four adult kids when she underwent surgery for urinary incontinence in 2006. Before the procedure, she says the doctor explained that ...

NEW YORK — In July 2013, California urogynecologist Andrew Cassidenti received an email from an entrepreneur named Otto Fisher, who had a proposition. Fisher was looking for surgeons to perform ...