AUSTIN, Texas — More than one million hernia surgeries are performed in the U.S. every year. The majority of those surgeries involve plastic mesh. Last month, the Food and Drug Administration ordered ...

The U.S. FDA’s draft guidance for package labeling recommendations for hernia mesh products did not draw a large volume of comments, but the Medical Device Manufacturers Association advised the agency ...

When an organ, intestine, or fatty tissue is displaced and protrudes through a hole or weak spot in the nearby muscle or connecting tissue, it’s called a hernia. According to the FDA, more than ...

William Dalton of Hancock was 73 in December 2013, when doctors first attempted to patch the hernia in his belly. But the mesh curled up and failed, and he was back in June 2014 to get another one.

Hernias are one of the most common soft tissue injuries. Hernias form when intra-abdominal content, such as a loop of the intestine, squeezes through weak, defective or injured areas of the abdominal ...

Plaintiff alleged infection, abscess caused by defective mesh implant Company still faces more than 26,000 hernia mesh claims in federal and state court April 15 - A jury on Friday ordered Becton, ...

GEORGETOWN, Texas — Moving is never easy. It's even harder when you're recovering from your ninth surgery. “I wish somebody had told me don't do it, don't do it,” said Carmen Pacheco. “It's put a ...

April 6, 2011 (San Antonio, Texas) — Surgeons at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, have devised a method to project a "laser roadmap" intraabdominally to visually guide surgeons in ...