A NURSE says she made a “dreadful mistake” having an NHS procedure after being left in agony. Dawn Martin is one of hundreds ...

It has been a year since a report recommended a compensation scheme for people affected by two of the biggest medical ...

Payouts will be given to 140 women left in pain from vaginal mesh implants in a scandal blamed on a culture of misogyny. The group settlement is understood to be the first successful claim in ...

The material commonly used in vaginal mesh implants starts to degrade within 60 days of being implanted in the pelvis, ...

Vaginal mesh surgery, sometimes called tape surgery, is used to treat urinary incontinence, and involves inserting a strip of synthetic mesh behind the urethra to support it. Th procedure is ...

Women harmed by pelvic mesh implants are still waiting for government compensation a year after a major report called for urgent action. Patient safety commissioner Dr Henrietta Hughes ...

Women harmed by pelvic mesh implants are still waiting for government compensation a year after a major report called for urgent action. Patient safety commissioner Dr Henrietta Hughes, who made that ...

While other vaginal mesh devices have been removed from the market, J&J continues to sell the TVT-O device and surgeons continue to implant it in women across the country and worldwide.

Pelvic mesh used to treat stress urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse is also thought to have caused complications and harm for thousands of women – possibly more than 200,000 in ...

Ministers have been urged to give financial compensation to women affected by the mesh scandal as the Patient Safety Commissioner expressing her disappointment over a lack of action to date. Last year ...