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 ...

SYDNEY-- More than 700 Australian women in a class-action case against pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson that started Tuesday argued that the company's vaginal mesh implants caused them ...

Like more than 100,000 Australian women, Linda Schulz had a pelvic mesh implant to treat complications from childbirth that resulted in her bowel and bladder prolapsing. The mesh was meant to be a ...

A jury in Bergen County has awarded $15 million in damages to a woman who claims a faulty transvaginal mesh implant caused severe and chronic pain, her lawyer said Friday. Elizabeth Hrymoc of South ...

On June 18, 2007, plaintiff Linda Dunfee, 49, underwent implantation of a Prolift device, a polypropylene mesh device, to treat pelvic organ prolapse. Dunfee claimed that the device ultimately caused ...

SEATTLE – Dawna Hankins was scheduled to have a partial hysterectomy in 2008 when her doctor suggested implanting a vaginal mesh device at the same time to deal with minor incontinence. After three ...

The woman at the center of a landmark legal victory against pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson over defective vaginal mesh implants said the battle has been won "but the war will still go on." ...

Editor's note: On April 16, 2019, the FDA ordered Boston Scientific and another company to stop all sales and distribution of gynecological mesh used for the transvaginal repair of pelvic organ ...

Jennifer King is the Chair of the UroGynaecological Society of Australasia. Last week, a Senate Committee investigating the impacts of “transvaginal mesh implants” on women in Australia handed down ...

The mesh devices have been used in supposedly routine pelvic floor procedures for over 8000 women. The women are seeking damages for “life-altering complications” caused by the implants. Shockingly, ...

Over 800 women in the UK are suing National Health Services for shoddy transvaginal mesh implants, many of which have caused women severe pain and damage. According to IBTimes, close to one in 11 ...