In a Health Notification issued in October 2008 and updated in July 2011, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned of serious complications associated with transvaginal placement of surgical ...

Two surgical procedures used to repair vaginal prolapse - one involving removal of the uterus via hysterectomy and the other employing mesh support that preserves the uterus - have comparable clinical ...

Two surgical procedures used to repair vaginal prolapse -- one involving removal of the uterus via hysterectomy and the other employing mesh support that preserves the uterus -- have comparable ...

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 ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently highlighted the problem in a new advisory about vaginal surgeries that use mesh to repair pelvic organ prolapse, warning that the procedures are no more ...

Jennifer King is the Chair of the UroGynaecological Society of Australasia. Last week, a Senate Committee investigating the impacts of “transvaginal mesh implants” on women in Australia handed down ...

On top of that, there’s no evidence that transvaginal surgical mesh actually provides any benefit. According to the FDA, a review of scientific articles published over the past 15 years found that use ...

Current evidence on the safety of infracoccygeal sacropexy using mesh to repair uterine prolapse shows there are serious but well recognised complications. The evidence on efficacy is inadequate in ...

The Food and Drug Administration orders Boston Scientific and Coloplast to stop selling surgical mesh used for some pelvic operations. The companies have 10 days to submit their plans to withdraw the ...