(Reuters Health) - About one in 30 women who get a common type of vaginal surgery to address urinary incontinence will need repeat procedures within 10 years to remove or replace mesh slings inserted ...

Women with vaginal discomfort Is the risk of depression or self-harm greater in women who have experienced complications following transvaginal mesh midurethral sling placement? Women with ...

The Food and Drug Administration has issued a new warning about a medical device many say never should have been implanted in millions of women. In January, the FDA re-classified transvaginal mesh, a ...

A follow-up of nearly 60,000 women who received a synthetic vaginal mesh sling for the treatment of stress urinary incontinence finds the risk is low for needing a second surgery for mesh removal or ...

Synthetic mesh sling procedures cure hundreds of thousands of women suffering from stress urinary incontinence in the United States every year, according to the American Urogynecologic Society. But it ...

Patiromer Rapidly Lowers Potassium in Hyperkalemic CKD Patients Erosions occurred in 2.7% of patients compared with 1.6% of patients who underwent SUI sling implantation alone. Transvaginal pelvic ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Women injured by pelvic mesh devices rallied in front of the federal courthouse in Charleston Tuesday in an effort to resolve thousands of cases filed against the procedure. As of ...

About one in 30 women who get a common type of vaginal surgery to address urinary incontinence will need repeat procedures within 10 years to remove or replace mesh slings inserted to prevent leaking ...

Purpose To evaluate the use of Mersilene mesh as a brow suspensory material and to compare it clinically against autogenous fascia lata. Methods A prospective study was carried out in which 80 eyes of ...

Julianne Moore in ‘Great Shock’ After Donald Trump Bans Her Children’s Book ‘Freckleface Strawberry’ From Schools: ‘I Can’t Help But Wonder What Is So Controversial’ Tom Hanks & Rita Wilson Walk Out ...