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Pure tissue repair: A hernia mesh alternative

GEORGETOWN, Texas — Moving is never easy. It's even harder when you're recovering from your ninth surgery. “I wish somebody had told me don't do it, don't do it,” said Carmen Pacheco. “It's put a ...
Reuters

Pelvic mesh maker AMS claims women were lured into needless surgeries

May 20 (Reuters) - American Medical Systems, a major defendant in litigation over controversial vaginal mesh devices, is accusing "a pyramid of businessmen, doctors and lawyers" of luring women into ...
Newsday

Removal of Faulty Mesh for Incontinence May Not Improve Women's Symptoms

Removal of vaginal mesh -- a device implanted to help support a woman's pelvic organs -- won't necessarily improve side effects such as pain and incontinence related to the device, suggests the mixed ...
UUHC Health Feed

New Research Shows Pelvic Organ Prolapse Surgery Less Effective Than Expected

SALT LAKE CITY – Research conducted by the Pelvic Floor Disorders Network, an initiative funded by the National Institutes of Health, has revealed that the long-term success rates of a surgery to ...
Reuters

Special Report - Investors profit by funding surgery for desperate women patients

The total number of mesh-removal surgeries involving medical funders could be much higher. In a different court filing, Christensen said that as many as 3,750 of the 125,000 medical bills MedStar ...