After more than a year delay, courts are opening and the first hernia mesh trial naming defendant Bard will begin with jury selection on August 2.
BJ Fendler worked in the insurance industry for decades as an actuary until a resorbable hernia mesh implant impacted her life drastically. This is her story in her own words.
Why have hernia surgeries with mesh become the most common repair for 95 percent of procedures? Dr. William Brown weighs in on this Hernia Mesh Insights podcast.
Simply put, Congress has not allotted enough money for the Food and Drug Administration to do its job as a watchdog over the thousands of medical devices on the market, says a former FDA professional.
In this podcast, Bruce shares his horror story pertaining to his failed hernia mesh and his efforts to help others.
In this podcast, Dr. Brown explores the failure of synthetic hernia mesh, its complicated removal and recovery for his patients.
In this program, Ms. Kinard, a former FDA Program Manager, offers an in-depth analysis of the broken medical device adverse events reporting system.
Casualty has been a popular British nighttime drama for more than 30 years and Sling the Mesh's founder has been brought in to help form a storyline on the mesh issues in that country.
After seven years of appeals, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court jury issued its opinion deciding that the damage award of $12.85 million against Ethicon should stand..
Bruce Rosenberg is a patient advocate and a hernia mesh injured patient who has turned his life work as a social worker to directing mesh-injured patients to the appropriate caregiver.
There have been so many reports of complications concerning Paragard IUD, including 15 deaths, that a new MDL is forming in Georgia to take cases to trial.
Reports on the Essure birth control device are still being gathered by the FDA even though the device was taken off the market in late 2018. Essure was another questionable device marketed to women.
When women were injured by the birth control device Essure, they became the driving force behind the removal of the controversial device from the market.
J&J tried to have an enormous verdict overturned by going to the U.S. Supreme Court, but the high court rejected the appeal. J&J is on the hook for more than $2 Billion to women injured by its talc.
A woman asks Mesh News Desk what happened to her defective pelvic mesh lawsuit against Caldera Medical?
