All Articles Tagged With: "Surgical Mesh"
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Counterfeit Polypropylene Mesh Marketed as Bard Surgical Mesh: FDA
The FDA is warning that health care professionals may have been sold a counterfeit surgical mesh under the C.R. Bard brand name, which could put patients in danger.
ObTape Bladder Sling Lawsuit Filings Continue as Mentor Wins First Trial
At least 32 lawsuits have been filed against Mentor Corp. involving problems with their ObTape vaginal mesh used during bladder suspension surgery, and additional cases are expected to be filed in the coming months now that a federal MDL has been established in Georgia. However, last month Mentor was successful in the first ObTape lawsuit [...]
FDA Warns About Complications of Surgical Mesh for Pelvic Organ Prolapse and Stress Urinary Incontinence
The FDA issued a public health notification yesterday to warn about a number of serious problems that have been associated with transvaginal placement of surgical mesh that is used to treat pelvic organ prolapse (POP) and stress urinary incontinence (SUI).
