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A jury in Bergen County, New Jersey, on Friday awarded $35 million in punitive damages in a suit against C.R. Bard over defective pelvic mesh products.
At the same time, another law firm has joined Kline & Specter in criticizing the set-aside request, saying some of the fee requests have not been fair and that money for the common benefit fees ...
In June 2024, Nachawati Law Group appellate lawyers obtained what observers described as a key appellate court ruling that allowed allegations of gross negligence and intentional misconduct to move forward against defendants known as transmission and distribution utilities (TDUs) that include CenterPoint Energy, Oncore Electric Delivery and ...
Michelle Roberts - Digital health editor, BBC News February 6, 2025 at 7:06 PM More than 100,000 women are believed to have had mesh implants fitted between 2007 and 2015 [BBC]
Post herniorrhaphy pain syndrome, or inguinodynia is pain or discomfort lasting greater than 3 months after surgery of inguinal hernia. Randomized trials of laparoscopic vs open inguinal hernia repair have demonstrated similar recurrence rates with the use of mesh and have identified that chronic groin pain (>10%) surpasses recurrence (<2%) and is an important measure of success.
Hernia surgery is one of the most common current applications of surgical mesh. Hernias occur when organs or fatty tissue bulge through openings or debilitated areas of muscle, usually in the abdominal wall. Surgical mesh is implanted to strengthen tissue repair and minimize the rate of recurrence.
In 1999, Johnson & Johnson had signed a contract with a company called Excerpta Medica. Its specialty was medical marketing. Its sub-specialty was producing ghostwritten, data-filled studies on the efficacy and safety of a client’s drugs, finding the right academic scholars to be listed as the authors and then placing the articles in prestigious academic journals.
A biologic form of surgical mesh called biomesh has been used in inguinal and other types of hernia surgeries, particular in contaminated fields.. Biomesh (or biologic mesh) is a type of surgical mesh made from an organic biomaterial (such as porcine dermis, porcine small intestine submucosa, bovine dermis or pericardium, and the dermis or fascia lata of a cadaveric human).