For thousands of women, transvaginal mesh has caused more problems than it has solved. Women with TVM have reported infections, urinary problems, pain during sexual intercourse, scarring, bladder perforation, recurrence of pelvic organ prolapse or incontinence, and other problems. If you have a transvaginal mesh implant and now suffer unusual…
There is a very important Depuy Pinnacle hip case being tried in Dallas, Texas as I write this. The federal court system has consolidated many of the Depuy Pinnacle lawsuits into one multidistrict litigation in the North District of Texas (3:11-md-02244) presided over by federal judge Ed Kinkeade. Bellwether Cases…
Artificial hips have been failing for years now. The effort in the last two decades to build and market a metal-on-metal hip that might last the patient’s lifetime has not been a success. The manufacturers were too quick to move the new metal hips to market, and using the flawed…
Mark this down in the “It’s About Time” column. On January 4, 2016, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finally made the move to reclassify transvaginal mesh medical products from Class II to Class III. Surgical mesh is a medical product that has been used for more than sixty years…
We’ve been looking at recent trial results in transvaginal mesh cases. In this (fourth) post we review two verdicts from October 2015, where juries concluded that the mesh manufacturers were not negligent. Thus, these injured women received no money for the failure of the transvaginal mesh. In a third case,…
In this post, we continue our review of transvaginal mesh cases. We look at one (remarkable) jury verdict and one partial summary judgment decision in favor of the defendant from 2015. Many other cases are moving to trial. Going forward, I will keep you updated on jury verdicts and other…
Transvaginal mesh lawsuits are finally getting their day in court. This is a good thing for the thousands of women who were injured, some severely, by the failure of the transvaginal mesh products sold by Ethicon (Johnson & Johnson), Boston Scientific, and other companies. In Part 1, we looked…
Transvaginal mesh (TVM) is a plastic mesh product that is surgically implanted in women to repair or support weakened vaginal walls and other compromised tissue. Many women suffer from a condition called pelvic organ prolapse (POP), where an organ like the bladder prolapses from its normal position in the body…
You have probably seen news reports (or at least the flood of TV commercials from law firms) about the suffering caused by the failure of transvaginal mesh (TVM) products. This is a unique medical device failure “story” because of the large number of women who have been affected. It is…
I have written on this site about the horrific side effects that some young men have suffered as a result of taking the antipsychotic drug Risperdal. Check out my recent post on the subject for further information. Risperdal was developed by Janssen Pharmaceuticals (a company owned by Johnson & Johnson)…