When an organ, intestine, or fatty tissue is displaced and protrudes through a hole or weak spot in the nearby muscle or connecting tissue, it’s called a hernia. According to the FDA, more than ...

Johnson & Johnson plans to stop selling surgical mesh implants used to treat women’s health problems, which have been linked to injuries and triggered hundreds of lawsuits. Johnson & Johnson plans to ...

Vaginal mesh implants (also known as pelvic mesh implants, urogynaecological meshes, or transvaginal meshes) is used for patients who experience incontinence or pelvic organ prolapse. The latter ...

AUSTIN, Texas — More than one million hernia surgeries are performed in the U.S. every year. The majority of those surgeries involve plastic mesh. Last month, the Food and Drug Administration ordered ...

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 ...

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 type of mesh used in the vagina and linked to serious and painful complications may be banned in the United Kingdom. According to the BBC, the U.K.'s National Institute for Health and Care ...

Hernias are one of the most common soft tissue injuries. Hernias form when intra-abdominal content, such as a loop of the intestine, squeezes through weak, defective or injured areas of the abdominal ...

When Sherise Grant filed a claim against the manufacturer of her pelvic mesh implant, she hoped to use the money from a settlement to pay for its removal. Ms. Grant, 51, was among the millions of ...

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 ...