Transvaginal mesh products are sometimes used to repair stress urinary incontinence (SUI) and pelvic organ prolapse (POP), conditions that can often occur following childbirth or as a patient ages.

You know a medical topic is worth Googling when celebs start Tweeting about it. And recently, comedian Chelsea Peretti did just that when she couldn't help but notice a deluge of commercials ...

Lawsuits continue to mount against Boston Scientific Corp. (NYSE:BSX) and five other medical device companies regarding a product to treat pelvic organ prolapse in women as a two-year statute of ...

The Food and Drug Administration has issued a new warning about a medical device many say never should have been implanted in millions of women. In January, the FDA re-classified transvaginal mesh, a ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued two final orders on Monday, January 4, 2016 to strengthen the data requirements for transvaginal surgical mesh devices that repair pelvic organ prolapse ...

July 13, 2011 — A dramatic increase in reports of adverse events over the use of surgical mesh for the transvaginal repair of pelvic organ prolapse (POP) is a continuing serious safety concern, the US ...

Johnson & Johnson and its Ethicon division have reached a deal with the attorneys general of 41 states and the District of Columbia, agreeing to settle claims that it deceptively advertised and ...

CHICAGO — The ban on further sales of transvaginal mesh for pelvic organ prolapse (POP) imposed by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last month has some people cheering, some saying that an ...

ORLANDO, FLA. — An Orlando doctor and Michigan consultant are accused by federal authorities in a nationwide scheme to persuade women to take on debt and travel long distances to remove controversial ...

From 2006 to 2009 FDA received more than 1000 adverse event reports about the mesh products used in transvaginal surgical repair of pelvic organ prolapse and stress urinary continence. Problems ranged ...