Because of COVID there have been no trials for any mesh cases. With restrictions lifting, expect to see a series of hernia mesh trials ahead including defendants Bard, Atrium, and Ethicon.
Hernia mesh trials have not moved forward because of COVID and closed courtrooms. Optimistically, those will begin with bellwether trials in the new year.
All Thomas Wolowitz wanted was to ask questions and get answers. Instead, he ended up in the system of hernia mesh complication hell.
Mesh Medical Device News Desk, September 2020~ Bruce Rosenberg is a patient advocate and hernia mesh expert. He has been living with his own hernia ...
New Zealand has just released a report seven months in the making that acknowledges the severity of polypropylene pelvic mesh implants routinely implanted to treat incontinence and prolapse.
The business model for Johnson & Johnson and its Ethicon Inc. medical device subdivision appears to be - push ahead and pay a fine if caught. J&J must pay $117 M for deceptive marketing of its mesh.
Reactions are coming in reacting to the sudden death of surgeon, researcher, and tireless patient advocate, Dr. Robert Bendavid, MD.
It is the smallest jury compensation so far, in a number of pelvic mesh personal injury trials, but on Friday June 28, 2019, Linda and Thomas Dunfee were successful in her pelvic mesh case against J&J
How well were you represented in your personal injury case against mesh makers? Some plaintiffs allege, not very well.
Bruce is a patient advocate who receives thousands of inquiries from hernia mesh injured patients, though he is not a doctor or lawyer, just a mesh patient himself.
Mesh Medical Device News Desk, May 1, 2019 ~ May first is the Worldwide Mesh Awareness Day, a term coined by the Mesh Awareness Movement, though recog…
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.
Vladae Roytapel is known as the, Russian Dog Wizard, from Newport Beach, California. Voted Best Dog Trainer in his area for many years, he was at a loss as to how to address his hernia.
What facility did Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) choose when he had to have a hernia operation? Hint- It's not in the U.S.
Dr. Shirin Towfigh is a hernia mesh doctor in Beverly Hills, CA. Mesh News Desk is preparing a series of stories on hernia mesh as litigation begins to focus on this medical device
Dr. Vladimir Iakovlev is a pathologist who has studied more than 500 explanted polypropylene and bovine/ porcine meshes for hernia and pelvic repair. Scar tissue shrinks mesh. Infections can be fatal.
Bruce Rosenberg is a patient advocate and hernia-mesh injured man who understands how to help people injured by hernia mesh. He asks- Is it the polypropylene?
Dr. Robert Bendavid, Shouldice Clinic, Toronto, flew to London to participate in the Parliamentary debate initiated by the patient group, Sling the Mesh.
Dr. Robert Bendavid, Shouldice Hospital, Toronto Mesh Medical Device News Desk, September 2017 ~ Dr. Robert Bendavid is a leading hernia surgeon wit…
Court documents reveal to MND all of the chemicals used to make most polypropylene mesh, whether hernia or pelvic.
Consumer advocate Ralph Nader interviews Dr. Robert Bendavid on hernia mesh and Jane Akre, editor of Mesh News Desk on the hundreds of thousands of patient injuries that are going unrecognized.
Using Plastic for Permanent Implants may not have been the most biocompatible choice of industry, especially when you consider a lifetime of contact with bodily fluids.
Please help ProPublica put a face on patient harm. The nonprofit news organization continues to report on patient harm from largely unregulated medical devices.
Bruce Rosenberg, patient advocate, talks to thousands of hernia mesh injured patients every year. The truth is there are few avenues for those who have been injured by a permanent implant, hernia mesh
In this excellent article by General Surgery News by Dr. Robert Bendavid on the history of hernia mesh as well as the present-day debate on its use.
BY MARION SCOTT SUNDAY MAIL The UK's Labour’s health spokesman Andy Burnham has accused the Scottish Government of failing women affected by the mesh…
Wilkie Ferguson federal court, Miami If the lawyers working for Boston Scientific need to convince a jury that polypropylene pelvic mesh is the “sta...
Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Mesh News Desk, (MND) March 1, 2017~ The March 13th pelvic mesh trial of Sullivan v. Boston Scientific will not be…
Caller, On Hold Webstore MND, July 27, 2015 ~ Sometimes one can actually find humor in this mesh mess. Easy for me to say, I’m not injured. But let...
