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 ...

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 ...

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.

*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 ...

Microscopic particles left behind by vaginal mesh could continue to trigger the immune system to attack healthy tissue even after the material has been removed, according to researchers. Experts ...

SCOTS patients who received private transvaginal mesh implant removal procedures will be reimbursed by the Scottish Government under a new proposed law. The Transvaginal Mesh Removal (Cost ...

(HealthDay News) – According to two new studies, removal of vaginal mesh or tape can reduce pain, and the use of vaginal mesh can have long-term consequences, even after removal. These findings were ...

The total number of mesh-removal surgeries involving medical funders could be much higher. In a different court filing, Christensen said that as many as 3,750 of the 125,000 medical bills MedStar ...