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Ethicon Seeks to Ban ‘Safety Principles’ Argument in Prolift Transvaginal Mesh Trial
Mar 4, 2015 | Harris Martin Publishing
Ethicon Inc. has asked a West Virginia federal judge to ban arguments in a Prolift transvaginal mesh trial that it adopted, then violated... -
Ky. Federal Judge Dismisses Warranty, Fraud, Emotional Distress Claims in Transvaginal Mesh Case
Mar 4, 2015 | Harris Martin Publishing
A Kentucky federal judge has granted CL Medical Inc.’s motion to dismiss claims of breach of warranty, fraud, negligent misrepresentation and negligent infliction of emotional distress in a transvaginal mesh case -
Campaigner Joins Scottish Victims in Call to Ban Controversial Implant
Mar 4, 2015 | Barry and District News
By Dominic Jones
As Scotland holds an inquiry into a medical scandal, a woman who is campaigning for similar action in Wales has travelled to Edinburgh to lend her support. -
Health Secretary Says Mesh Surgery Only to Happen with 'Fully Informed Consent' of Patient
Mar 3, 2015 | Daily Record and Sunday Mail
MESH implant operations will only take place where there is "fully informed consent" on the part of the patient, the Health Secretary has said. -
News Clip: Call for suspension of use of vaginal mesh implants.
Mar 3, 2015 | BBC: Democracy Live
Broadcast: MSPs quizzed Scottish government minister's at topical question time on 3 March 2015.
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Ethicon Seeks to Ban ‘Safety Principles’ Argument in Prolift Transvaginal Mesh Trial
Mar 4, 2015 | Harris Martin Publishing
Ethicon Inc. has asked a West Virginia federal judge to ban arguments in a Prolift transvaginal mesh trial that it adopted, then violated, “safety principles” or “safety rules,” asserting that they usurp the court’s role in instructing the jury on the law.
In the March 3 brief, Ethicon further asserted that “aspirational standards which exceed the standard of care are not even admissible.” Trial began on March 2 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia before Judge Joseph R. Goodwin.
Arizona resident Dianne M. Bellew alleges she was injured after ...
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Ky. Federal Judge Dismisses Warranty, Fraud, Emotional Distress Claims in Transvaginal Mesh Case
Mar 4, 2015 | Harris Martin Publishing
A Kentucky federal judge has granted CL Medical Inc.’s motion to dismiss claims of breach of warranty, fraud, negligent misrepresentation and negligent infliction of emotional distress in a transvaginal mesh case, deeming them insufficiently pled.
On March 2, Judge Danny C. Reeves of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky found the plaintiffs lack privity with CL Medical and failed to specify the time, nature, and place of the defendant’s alleged omissions.
Mary Gaunce was implanted with a CL Medical I-STOP mid-urethral sling to treat her stress urinary incontinence. I-STOP is a sterile, single ...
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Campaigner Joins Scottish Victims in Call to Ban Controversial Implant
Mar 4, 2015 | Barry and District News
By Dominic Jones
As Scotland holds an inquiry into a medical scandal, a woman who is campaigning for similar action in Wales has travelled to Edinburgh to lend her support.
Barry woman Jemima Williams is spearheading a campaign in Wales for the banning of a gynaecological mesh implant that has left women across the globe in agony and, in many cases, confined to wheelchairs.
This week, as a Scottish petitions committee investigates the dangers of the device - used largely for pelvic prolapse issues in women - a US lawyer has described the netting used as being as dangerous as asbestos.
“The closest analogy I can find is asbestos,” US lawyer Adam Slater said. “Something that was thought to be a wonderful invention for a long time and now everybody in the world knows it is something you wouldn’t want to go anywhere near.”
Problems arise when the implant migrates and erodes, leaving people in constant pain and in many cases permanently disabled or needing life-saving surgery when the mesh perforates their intestines.
Jemima, 54, has described how, since having the mesh operation 12 years ago, she has lived in agony every day.
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As a result of a massive campaign in Scotland, last year Scottish Health Minister Alex Neil urged health boards to suspend the use of the mesh until after a safety review.
It has since been revealed that despite this, many health boards ignored the government request and a further 166 operations were carried out.
Jemima, of Griffin Close, Barry has been campaigning for the Welsh Assembly to take similar action - or at the least follow Scotland's footsteps in creating a database to record instances of failure - with the help of her GP husband Dennis and solicitor Dr Sarah-Jane Richards.
Jemima is hoping that a successful campaign in Scotland will pave the way for action across the UK.
She also plans to create a petition that can be handed in to the Welsh Government's petitions committee.
"We've been going up to Scotland to lend our support to the campaigners," she said. "And also to meet with them and get advice on what we can do in order to bring this forward in Wales.
"Hopefully once Scotland have their foot in the door other health boards will have to bow to pressure."
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Health Secretary Says Mesh Surgery Only to Happen with 'Fully Informed Consent' of Patient
Mar 3, 2015 | Daily Record and Sunday Mail
MESH implant operations will only take place where there is "fully informed consent" on the part of the patient, the Health Secretary has said.
Shona Robison has asked the Chief Medical Officer to write again to all health boards asking them to suspend the use of the implants until an independent review into their use has published its report.
Mesh implants are used to treat prolapse and bladder problems, but some women have experienced painful complications.
It emerged that some boards are continuing to perform the procedure despite a call for a moratorium by Ms Robison's predecessor Alex Neil in June last year.
She said there had been a "dramatic reduction" in the number of operations since then.
But she said that because mesh implants are not banned by the Medicine and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), patients still have the right to request them.
"Where women who ask for this procedure to be carried out, in consultation with their clinician, aware of all of the risks and having had explained to them what the alternatives are, in that full knowledge decide that they want to proceed, then there is nothing we can do to stop that," she told MSPs.
She rejected Labour MSP Jenny Marra's view that there is "extreme confusion as to what the Scottish Government's position is" over mesh implants.
Ms Robison said: "There is no confusion except perhaps in the mind of Jenny Marra."
She added: "The reason the Chief Medical Officer wrote again to boards is to remind them of our position that we think it would be better for boards to suspend those procedures, but we recognise that the individual women will have the right to ask for that procedure to take place."
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News Clip: Call for suspension of use of vaginal mesh implants.
Mar 3, 2015 | BBC: Democracy Live
Broadcast: MSPs quizzed Scottish government minister's at topical question time on 3 March 2015.
Link to Boradcast: http://www.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/scotland-31716091
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