Manufacturers of surgical mesh products must stop selling and distributing their products in the United States immediately, the US Food and Drug Administration ordered Tuesday. The FDA said it “has ...

October 21, 2008 — Clinicians should receive specialized training for the transvaginal placement of mesh products and be vigilant for adverse events, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned ...

GAITHERSBURG, MD — Instrumentation used to place surgical mesh during urogynecological procedures should be subject to stricter manufacturing requirements and more detailed labeling, according to US ...

Matthew Johnson, a spokesman for J&J's Ethicon unit that makes the devices, said the company was reviewing the correspondence from the FDA. “Ethicon's transvaginal mesh devices are already among the ...