Up to 12% of patients may develop chronic pain after inguinal hernia mesh repair—often linked to synthetic mesh and sometimes requiring revision surgery Phasix mesh is the elusive, safer alternative ...

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 ...

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The national law firm of Baron & Budd is now accepting lawsuits on behalf of patients who suffered health problems after being implanted with a hernia mesh as part of a ...

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CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Surgical Technology International has released a publication led by Dr. Bruce Ramshaw, Past President of the Americas Hernia Society and Co-Founder of CQInsights; and Dr.

Among patients undergoing incisional hernia repair, the use of mesh to reinforce the repair was associated with a lower risk of hernia recurrence over 5 years compared with when mesh was not used, ...

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 ...

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 ...

C.R. Bard, Inc. is one of many medical device companies involved in large nationwide litigation concerning defective hernia mesh products. C.R. Bard, Inc. faces more than 25,000 lawsuits in state and ...