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Ethicon Media Monitoring 5/11/2018
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*Breaking* 100,000 Women 60 Minutes on Mesh Mess!!!
May 10, 2018 | Mesh Medical Device News Desk
By Jane Akre
Mesh News Desk is happy to announce that a story that’s been in production concerning the transvaginal mesh debacle will finally air this Sunday, May 13, 2018 on 60 Minutes, the premier news magazine of all time in the States!! -
NHS in Wales promised £1m a year to transform pelvic health treatment
May 10, 2018 | Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
By Gill Hitchcock
Wales’ health secretary Vaughan Gething has allocated £1 million a year to create new pelvic health care pathways so that women will receive physiotherapy or other conservative treatments before surgery is considered. -
Deeside MP Mark Tami responds to Welsh Government’s vaginal mesh statement
May 11, 2018 | Deeside.com
Deeside MP Mark Tami has said the use of mesh has left too many people in Wales with crippling and life-changing injuries.
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*Breaking* 100,000 Women 60 Minutes on Mesh Mess!!!
May 10, 2018 | Mesh Medical Device News Desk
By Jane Akre
Mesh News Desk is happy to announce that a story that’s been in production concerning the transvaginal mesh debacle will finally air this Sunday, May 13, 2018 on 60 Minutes, the premier news magazine of all time in the States!!
According to a release this afternoon:
100,000 WOMEN – More than 100,000 American women are suing over a medical device implanted in their bodies called gynecological mesh in what has become the largest multi-district litigation since asbestos.
Scott Pelley reports on one manufacturer of the devices, Boston Scientific, which is facing 48,000 lawsuits. Oriana Zill de Granados and Michael Rey are the producers.
Your editor was called two years ago and met with Oriana Zill in NYC. (I was already there for my daughter’s college graduation). During lunch, her eyes widened and she dropped her fork and started scribbling on a notebook as she asked questions and I answered. I”m sure some of the things I said sounded too fantastic… how could these things be true was the expression on her face!
But as readers of MND know, they are true and more.
Producers Zill and Rey decided to focus on Boston Scientific and its smuggling of raw polypropylene resin from China, which was a story just breaking at the time. But in their research, they knew they had to uncover the truth about polypropylene resin as an implant in the body. In the piece, polymer scientists will offer expert opinions on the use of polypropylene (PP) as a mesh implant material!
It is shocking!!
Please stay tuned and comment on the CBS 60 Minutes site when the story concludes!! 7 pm EST this Sunday. Your editor of MND does not make the final cut but helped with research and finding women who are in the piece.
On a personal note – This is the sort of mainstream coverage I’ve always known this story deserves and have been dreaming of!! It was an honor to help in any way to bring it to 60 Minutes, and falling on the heels of a recent Netflix documentary, The Bleeding Edge, it shows that this story of mass experimentation of untested medical devices on hundreds of thousands of women globally is one that deserves to be told!
https://www.meshmedicaldevicenewsdesk.com/breaking-100000-women-60-minutes-on-mesh-mess/
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NHS in Wales promised £1m a year to transform pelvic health treatment
May 10, 2018 | Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
By Gill Hitchcock
Wales’ health secretary Vaughan Gething has allocated £1 million a year to create new pelvic health care pathways so that women will receive physiotherapy or other conservative treatments before surgery is considered.
The announcement, on 8 May, was in response to a Welsh government-commissioned report on the use of vaginal synthetic mesh tape and sheets for stress urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse.
Physiotherapy and specialist services for continence should be prioritised for incontinence and prolapse, with surgery as a last resort, the report says. It wants this approach to be part a new ‘pelvic health and wellbeing pathway’.Care pathway
This initial care pathway will include access to multidisciplinary teams of clinicians offering continence care, physiotherapy, pain management and where appropriate psychology skills.
Patients need better information to make sure they can make fully-informed and decisions about treatment options, the document recommends. In addition, GPs must have direct access to specialist advice so they can provide better support for patients.Fundamental change
Mr Gething said: ‘What is particularly clear to me after reading this report is that we need a fundamental change in the way the NHS supports women with pelvic health problems, moving to a focus on prevention and conservative therapies.’
The team which produced the report was chaired by Simon Emery, a consultant in obstetrics and gynaecology at Singleton hospital, Swansea, and included two physiotherapists. Both based in Cardiff, they are Gillian McCabe, a specialist in pelvic health with a private practice, and Carol Broad, clinical lead physiotherapist for women’s health at University Hospital Wales.
Ms McCabe said: ‘What emerged during our discussions was that often GPs do not consider physiotherapy as an appropriate treatment for this patient group and make referrals for surgery before physiotherapy has been pursued.Education first
‘There is work to do in standardising education and training for women’s pelvic health physiotherapy across Wales. We need to make sure that new graduates or less experienced physiotherapists are not undertaking this specialist treatment. They need to be educated first.’
The report highlights a lack of data about the treatment for pelvic problems. It calls for improvements to data capture about interventions, complications and access to specialist support.
An implementation group, which will provide the health secretary with regular progress reports, will be set up ‘without delay’. In the meantime, Mr Gething said he expected all health boards to read the report and consider what local improvements they could make immediately.
http://www.csp.org.uk/news/2018/05/10/nhs-wales-promised-1m-year-transform-pelvic-health-treatment
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Deeside MP Mark Tami responds to Welsh Government’s vaginal mesh statement
May 11, 2018 | Deeside.com
Deeside MP Mark Tami has said the use of mesh has left too many people in Wales with crippling and life-changing injuries.
Mr Tami who has called issues around mesh implants a national scandal said it was “good’ the Welsh Government has recognised the severity of the issue.
The Welsh Cabinet Secretary for health, Vaughan Gething AM, commissioned a Task and Finish Group to provide advice on the use of synthetic mesh tape and sheets for stress urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse.
Mr Gething told AMs on Tuesday that a new implementation group”, backed by up to £1m a year, was being set up.
He said: “I expect all health boards to consider the report’s findings and recommendations to consider what local improvements can be made immediately.
“Our aim must be to ensure women receive the best possible care and treatment when they present with stress urinary incontinence or pelvic organ prolapse, or any other complications as a result of existing treatment.”
Clinical leads and academics gathered to undertake the review and took into consideration the views of affected patients.
The report recommends an innovative new pathway with physiotherapy at its core for the care of patients with stress urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse in Wales, with surgery as a last resort.
Also, the group believes that proposed improvements to patient information for patients in Wales will lead to better decision making and a more robust consent process.
The group further recognised the need for improvements to data capture of procedures performed, devices used, complications reported.
They also want to ensure all professionals have knowledge of available services that could quickly improve this situation whilst a longer-term solution is pursued.
Mark Tami MP responded to the report; “It’s good to see that Welsh Government have recognised the severity of this scandal and are looking at an innovative new pathway to treat patients, with surgery a last resort.
“The use of mesh has left too many people in Wales, and across the world, with crippling and life-changing injuries and the quicker the use of mesh can be banned the better.
“I will continue to keep pressing the UK Government to ban the use of surgical mesh until a full investigative long-term research programme has been completed.”
Responding to the statement by the Welsh Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Services, Owen Smith MP, Chair of the APPG on Surgical Mesh Implants said:
“I am pleased that the Welsh Government recognises the severe complications many women have suffered following mesh surgery.
I welcome the report’s recommendation that mesh should only be used as a last resort and its proposal to create a new continence care pathway with physiotherapy at its heart.
“The report asserts that 6.4% of women who have undergone mesh surgery in Wales have later had to have the mesh removed or repaired.
This figure is significantly higher than previously thought and suggests that the proportion of women who suffer some form of complication after mesh surgery could be much higher.
I would, therefore, urge the Welsh Government to now conduct a retrospective audit of mesh procedures and commit to undertaking a full prospective registry so we may have a better understanding of just how many women are suffering following mesh surgery.”
http://www.deeside.com/deeside-mp-mark-tami-responds-to-welsh-governments-vaginal-mesh-statement/
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