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Updated Lawsuits That Favored J&J Mesh Victims

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There’s no bigger irony than suffering from a treatment which was undertaken to ease another ailment. Transvaginal mesh is the prime example of failure in treatment which has ultimately led to thousands of lawsuits as claimed by the suffering women. Sadly, most of them are against J&J. Johnson & Johnson faces more vaginal mesh lawsuits than any other manufacturer. Companies like C.R.Bard, Endo International plc, Boston Scientific, Colorplast, Medtronic, and Neomedic too have their own shares of lawsuits and legal complaints against them. But Johnson & Johnson tops them all. Thousands of lawsuits have been settled, though many are still pending.  Here are results from some of the lawsuits that have turned out in favor of mesh victims: •    In March 2018, a jury in Indiana awarded $35 million to Barbara and Anton Kaiser. They’d sued Ethicon (a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson) after Barbara Kaiser’s Prolift mesh allegedly caused her pelvic pain. They awar

Complications About Vaginal Mesh you Should Worry About

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Suffering from complications caused by vaginal mesh? Is your daily life disturbed? Is the severe pain disrupting your work or other daily activities? Concerned about transvaginal mesh complications associated with treatments for pelvic floor disorders? Here's what you need to know. Pelvic organ prolapse (POP) is one of the most common reasons for women to have surgery, with approximately 200,000 inpatient surgical procedures performed for POP in the U.S. each year. A woman’s risk of requiring surgery for prolapse is approximately 10 percent. Of those who have surgery, 13 percent will require a repeat operation within five years and as many as 30 percent will undergo another surgery for prolapse or a related condition at some point during their life. In the past several years, there was an increase in the use of synthetic and biologic mesh for transvaginal prolapse surgery. This was largely driven by the availability and marketing of commercially available pre-packed mesh pr