(Reuters) - A Michigan medical funder was ordered to pay about $1.3 million on Monday for his role in a scheme to convince women to have unnecessary surgery to remove their transvaginal mesh implants ...

Microscopic particles left behind by vaginal mesh could continue to trigger the immune system to attack healthy tissue even after the material has been removed, according to researchers. Experts ...

A company that failed to adequately inform women of dangerous side effects related to permanent pelvic mesh devices will be required to pay $60 million, according to a settlement announced this week ...

An Orlando doctor pleaded guilty last week to federal charges after prosecutors say the doctor and a patient recruiter enticed women with pelvic mesh implants into removing them and suing the device ...

Big developments on a common medical device Thursday. Johnson & Johnson agreed to pay Texas and 40 other states nearly $117 million to resolve allegations that it deceptively marketed transvaginal ...

Johnson & Johnson, a global healthcare giant based in New Brunswick, New Jersey, lost a product liability lawsuit surrounding its transvaginal mesh implants manufactured by Ethicon, a subsidiary of ...

Like more than 100,000 Australian women, Linda Schulz had a pelvic mesh implant to treat complications from childbirth that resulted in her bowel and bladder prolapsing. The mesh was meant to be a ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. A glass box engraved with “Another girl saved by the sling slayer” sits outside the surgeon’s office. A patient was so grateful ...

An Orlando doctor who was indicted last year by the federal government in an alleged scheme involving pelvic mesh lawsuits was jailed earlier this month after prosecutors accused him of witness ...