It’s a scary day when even the federal government can’t keep a laboratory sterile for drug-making. Following the New England Compounding Center (NECC) fungal outbreak in 2012, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has shut down the government’s own compounding pharmacy run by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) over […]
Since transvaginal mesh was first introduced into the market over 20 years ago, many hundreds of thousands of women have undergone operations where doctors have inserted vaginal mesh devices, threading them through incisions in the vagina to fortify pelvic muscles that failed to support internal organs or to treat incontinence, […]
Since transvaginal mesh was first introduced into the market over 20 years ago, many hundreds of thousands of women have undergone operations where doctors have inserted vaginal mesh devices, threading them through incisions in the vagina to fortify pelvic muscles that failed to support internal organs or to treat incontinence, […]
All filed federal product liability lawsuits claiming injuries with transvaginal mesh or bladder slings used for repair of pelvic organ prolapse (POP) and female stress urinary incontinence (SUI) are centralized. In February 2012, multidistrict litigation (MDL) cases against the mesh manufacturers began. This legal process streamlines hundreds of individual claims […]
Multidistrict litigation (MDL) is a consolidation of civil cases transferred from different jurisdictions around the country to a single U.S. District Court to achieve certain pre-trial efficiencies. All transferred cases must be marked by common fact questions, and are overseen by a federal judge. The aim of this consolidation is to preserve […]
Transvaginal mesh is a medical device implanted to treat stress urinary incontinence (SUI) and pelvic organ prolapse (POP) in women. Transvaginal mesh is a semi-permeable barrier implanted into a woman as a reinforcing structure to keep her internal organs in place. The device is known as vaginal mesh because it is now […]
Transvaginal mesh was first developed from surgical mesh used in hernia repair surgeries since the 1950s. Traditionally, surgical mesh used for hernia repair was constructed of collagen extracted from bovine or human tissue and formed into a mesh that could be implanted in humans. Physicians used the same mesh to treat […]
In 2010, doctors in the United States inserted more than 70,000 mesh devices in patients, threading them through incisions in the vagina to fortify pelvic muscles that failed to support internal organs or to treat incontinence, according to court filings. Sometimes the failure of these devices is masked by other symptoms, […]
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) first approved the Synchromed II Implantable Infusion Pump System manufactured Medtronic, Inc. in 2004. The pump infuses pain medication, Baclofen, through a catheter into a patient’s spine. This medical device is used to treat primary or metastatic cancer, chronic pain and severe spasticity. There […]
Sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors are a class of prescription medicines that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved to lower blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes. Obesity is a leading cause of type 2 diabetes. When untreated, type 2 diabetes can lead to serious problems such as blindness, […]
