(HealthDay News) – According to two new studies, removal of vaginal mesh or tape can reduce pain, and the use of vaginal mesh can have long-term consequences, even after removal. These findings were ...
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 ...
The future of medicine is often imagined to include some sort of high-tech or shiny device. But many cutting-edge therapies are fundamentally about using and improving upon what the body already has.
Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn have charged a physician and the owner of a medical consulting firm over a scheme to persuade women to have their pelvic mesh implants surgically removed to bolster the ...
Jerri Plummer was at home in Arkansas, watching television with her three children, when a stranger called to warn that her life was in danger. The caller identified herself only as Yolanda. She told ...
Donna Miser loved her job at Amazon. Yes, it was physically demanding, but she prided herself on winning awards at the warehouse just down the road from the apartment where she and her husband live in ...
As safer alternatives for hernia mesh materials come to market, we expect rates of chronic pain from chronic inflammation to polypropylene and the resulting neuropathic pain to substantially decrease.
Colorado Springs resident Robin Bowen was in her 40s and mom to four adult kids when she underwent surgery for urinary incontinence in 2006. Before the procedure, she says the doctor explained that ...
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 ...
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