(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A 2005 surgery meant to correct Frances Schulte's urinary incontinence brought her pain and further embarrassment rather than relief. Doctors implanted a medical device known as surgical mesh, which ...

Boston Scientific has launched a redesign of its mesh sling system, a surgical implant for relieving stress urinary incontinence in men, to make it easier to place and available to a broader ...

The transobturator sling by its design places the pudendal nerve in peril while the retropubic sling does not. What is clear is the transobturator sling by its design causes pudendal neuralgia, CRPS-2 ...

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 ...