The use of TVM slings leads to life-altering pain syndromes that make sexual relations impossible, reduces mobility, and causes bowel and bladder dysfunction. Transvaginal mesh (TVM) polypropylene slings continue to be pushed by the American Urogynecologic Society (AUGS) and American Gynecological & Obstetrical Society (ACOG) as the de facto ‘Gold Standard’ for the treatment [...]

Permanent, life-altering pain syndromes including obturator neuralgia and pudendal neuralgia is the foreseeable result. In 2008, a medical article ‘Persistent groin pain following a transobturator sling procedure for stress urinary incontinence: a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge’ was published in the International Urogynecology Journal. It is a scenario that has occurred far more than previously reported by [...]

Experts hired by the defendant manufacturers in the transvaginal mesh litigation were asked to comment on the ‘adequacy of warning’ of the device. Experts hired by the defendant manufacturers in the transvaginal mesh litigation, such as Ethicon and Boston Scientific, are paid upward of $15,000 for a report where they are often asked to comment on [...]