Monthly Prescribing Reference

‘Surgeon-Tailored’ Mesh Repair Resolves Urinary Incontinence

(HealthDay News) – “Surgeon-tailored” polypropylene mesh (STPM) repair using a transobturator midurethral sling procedure alone or in combination with pelvic organ prolapse repair is an effective ...
Robb Report

Surgical Mesh for Pelvic Organ Prolapse Repair the Subject of FDA Warning

In a Health Notification issued in October 2008 and updated in July 2011, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned of serious complications associated with transvaginal placement of surgical ...
NBC Bay Area

Bay Area Women Call for Ban of Transvaginal Mesh, Bladder Slings as FDA Issues More Warnings

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 ...
Yahoo Finance

Urinary Incontinence & Pelvic Organ Prolapse Devices And Equipment Global Market Report 2021: COVID-19 Impact and Recovery To 2030

New York, June 22, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report "Urinary Incontinence & Pelvic Organ Prolapse Devices And Equipment Global Market Report 2021: COVID-19 ...
WBUR

FDA Reclassifies Vaginal Mesh, Device Used For Prolapse, As 'High Risk'

The U.S.Food and Drug Administration has moved to strengthen regulations on vaginal mesh, a controversial medical device used to treat pelvic organ prolapse, a condition that can occur after ...
Medscape

FDA Ban on Transvaginal Mesh for Prolapse Stirs Controversy

CHICAGO — The ban on further sales of transvaginal mesh for pelvic organ prolapse (POP) imposed by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last month has some people cheering, some saying that an ...