Tag Archives: pelvic mesh
Horror stories of post baby op that can ruin lives
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4575510/Your-horror-stories-post-baby-op-ruin-lives.html#ixzz4jtMkMvvU Women have been damaged by a mesh to treat post-childbirth incontinence It causes a variety of side-effects including crippling pain and infection Yet the NHS has continued to give the implant a clean bill of health Here, some of the many who’ve contacted us tell their stories Women damaged by a mesh designed to […]
Scandal of fruit netting ‘approved as surgical implant’
The Sunday Times 11 January 2015 AN OXFORD scientist joined an undercover investigation to expose how the regulation of medical devices is so lax that mesh packaging for fruit could be approved as a medical device to be implanted in people’s bodies. Carl Heneghan, professor of evidence-based medicine at Oxford, agreed to produce a fake […]