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  1. Content Article
    In Australia, as in many other countries, the harms caused by transvaginal mesh surgery have prompted individual and collective attempts to achieve redress. Media outlets covered aspects of the rise of mesh surgery as a procedure, the experience of mesh-affected women and the formal inquiries and legal actions that followed, The authors of this article in the journal Health Expectations conducted a media analysis of the ten most read Australian newspapers and online news media platforms, focusing on how mesh and the interaction of stakeholders in mesh stories were presented to the Australian public. They found that mass media reporting, combined with medicolegal action and an Australian Senate Inquiry, appears to have provided women with greater epistemic justice, with powerful actors considering their stories. They argue that although medical reporting is not recognised in the hierarchy of evidence embedded in the medical knowledge system, in this case, media reporting has contributed to shaping medical knowledge in significant ways.
  2. Content Article
    A patient shares her experience of life-changing complications after a hysterectomy she had at a private hospital and the lack of follow up and help she's received since. She highlights the actions she would like to see in place for private hospitals around informed consent, follow up and support after surgery, and accountability. The patient wishes to remain anonymous.
  3. Content Article
    In this opinion piece for Trust the Evidence, Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson draw on data to argue that a 'smokescreen of safety' has long been used in marketing mesh products.
  4. Content Article
    Aortic Dissection is a catastrophic tear in the main artery carrying blood from the heart to the brain, limbs and vital organs. In this webinar, hosted by THINK AORTA, Dr Stephanie Curtis presents on aortic dissection in pregnancy. We also hear from Haleema Saadia, survivor of an aortic dissection, awareness campaigner and Vice-Chair of the National Patient Association for Aortic Dissection.
  5. Content Article
    This blog on the Sling the Mesh website provides an overview of research by Professor Carl Heneghan, Director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at Oxford University, into regulatory issues relating to pelvic mesh. It outlines issues uncovered by Professor Heneghan and his colleagues, including the fact that clinical trial data was not required in the regulation of mesh and that early evidence of complications was ignored in the approval of subsequent devices.
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    For the first time, RCOG World Congress will be an innovative and inclusive hybrid event, held simultaneously in London and online. To ensure we continue to support healthcare professionals at all stages across the globe, we wanted to provide a format accessible to all. Our hybrid event will feature a 350 in-person face-to-face event at the RCOG’s headquarters in Union Street, London and a state-of-the-art virtual experience available to all. Both will be linked using our virtual event platform and Congress app for networking, 121 meetings, Q&A, polling and live reactions. Find out more and register
  7. Content Article
    Mesh survivors Katherine Cousins and Mary McLaughlin talk about their ongoing fight for justice for women suffering due to vaginal mesh.
  8. Content Article
    Discussion on issues relating to vaginal mesh implants from 29 Jun 2022.
  9. Content Article
    Complications of surgical mesh procedures have led to legal cases against manufacturers worldwide and to national inquiries about their safety. The aim of this study from Keltie K et al. was to investigate the rate of adverse events of these procedures for stress urinary incontinence in England over 8 years.
  10. Content Article
    In this presentation Paula Goss, the founding member of Rectopexy Mesh Victims and Support, shares her experience of having a mesh implant. She describes the absence of informed consent during the procedure and the pain and complications she experienced following her surgery. This was shared at a Bristol Biomedical Research Centre workshop aimed at improving shared decision making for surgical innovation.
  11. Content Article
    Two years after Baroness Cumberlege shared her damning report, 'First Do No Harm', which highlighted serious failures in response to reports about harmful side effects from medicines and medical devices, too many mesh injured women still continue to be let down by the healthcare system. Women who have been harmed by pelvic mesh surgery have shared a series of appalling accounts of how they have been treated by their doctors while desperately seeking help for their injuries and complications. In this blog, we examine how these comments reveal an underlying misogyny held by many doctors, and a failure to take women’s concerns seriously.
  12. Content Article
    This is the transcript of a Westminster Hall debate in the House of Commons on waiting lists for gynaecological services.
  13. Content Article
    This article highlights two written questions tabled in the House of Commons relating to recommendations of the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety (IMMDS) Review concerning surgical mesh implants.
  14. Content Article
    This study in Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology aimed to determine the systemic effects of surgical mesh implants. The study looked at patients referred to an autoimmunity clinic between January 2014 and December 2017 and concluded that mesh implants may increase the risk of developing autoimmune diseases by acting as an adjuvant (increasing the body's own immune response).
  15. Content Article
    This study in Clinical Epidemiology aimed to investigate the long-term complications associated with surgical mesh devices used to treat stress urinary incontinence (SUI) and pelvic organ prolapse (POP). The authors looked at rates of diagnoses of depression, anxiety or self-harm (composite measure) and sexual dysfunction, and rates of prescriptions for antibiotics and opioids in women with and without mesh surgery, with a diagnostic SUI/POP code, registered in the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) gold database. The study found that mesh surgery was associated with poor mental and sexual health outcomes, alongside increased opioid and antibiotic use, in women with no history of these outcomes and improved mental health, and lower opioid use, in women with a previous history of these outcomes. The authors highlight the need to carefully consider the risks and benefits of mesh surgery on an individual basis.
  16. Content Article
    The use of pelvic mesh was paused in the UK in 2018 after some patients developed complications and severe pain following the treatment. In this report for CNA, a Singapore-based news channel, Kath Sansom, founder of campaign group Sling The Mesh, talks about the severe pain and life-changing side effects she experienced after pelvic mesh surgery. The report highlights the risks associated with mesh removal surgery, the fact that women harmed by mesh have been dismissed and ignored by the healthcare system, and concerns that the number of patients who experience complications from pelvic mesh has been underestimated. It also outlines the need for stronger medical device regulation in the UK, and looks at issues with compensation and redress for patients harmed by mesh.
  17. Content Article
    With waiting lists for gynaecology having grown by 60% since before the pandemic, many women are being left to cope with conditions like endometriosis, fibroids and prolapse on their own while waiting for NHS care. In this article, four women describe how NHS waiting lists and attitudes to gynaecological symptoms have left them living with severe pain and feeling like their health is not being taken seriously.
  18. Content Article
    In 2020, the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety (IMMDS) Review made specific recommendations that the government provide justice and redress to thousands of women who have been harmed by surgical mesh implants. Surgical mesh, also known as transvaginal tape, is a medical device surgically implanted to support organs and tissue. It is primarily used to treat urinary incontinence in women, but is also used to treat hernias and to reinforce abdominal areas where women have had tissue removed to reconstruct their breasts after mastectomy. In this article for the Mail Online, John Naish highlights that two years after the IMMDS, none of its recommendations have been implemented properly and surgical mesh is still being used. He examines the case of Kelly Cook, a 37 year-old mother who has been left with constant pain, nerve issues and incontinence after mesh surgery in 2018. In spite of the impact the mesh is having on her life, she has been told she may not be seen at one of the new specialist mesh centres for two years due to the length of the waiting list. The article also highlights the fact that no financial redress has yet been offered to mesh victims, that women's pain is still not being seen as a serious issue, and that there is a concerning lack of research into the safety of mesh devices.
  19. Content Article
    For the first time since the 1990s, the Surgeons’ Hall Museums in Edinburgh has displayed a new pathology specimen—a transvaginal tape removed in April 2022 from a woman suffering complications of vaginal tape (or mesh) surgery performed in 2006. In this blog Louise Wilkie, the museums' Curator, explains how the device came to be displayed, the history of vaginal tape surgery and the controversy surrounding its introduction and regulation. She also highlights concerns about the subsequent treatment of women who experienced life-changing complications as a result of the procedure.
  20. Content Article
    In this joint blog, Patient Safety Learning and Sling the Mesh highlight several issues with the specialist mesh centres set up by the NHS to provide treatment and surgery for women who have been harmed by mesh. We identify key patient safety issues and look at what needs to be done to ensure women receive timely, compassionate and appropriate treatment for complications they face as a result of mesh implants.
  21. Content Article
    Vaginal tapes, slings and meshes are medical devices that are surgically implanted to treat stress urinary incontinence (SUI) and pelvic organ prolapse (POP) in women. This report written on behalf of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) by York Health Economics Consortium, provides summaries of safety and adverse events related to vaginal tapes for SUI and POP. The summaries were developed using the data reported in systematic reviews of the effects and safety of vaginal tapes published in the 10 years up to 2012.
  22. Content Article
    Painful menstruation—dysmenorrhea—interferes with the daily life of around one in five women. This blog looks at why painful periods receive so little research attention and examines the impact this has on women's lives and health. Sharing a personal story of her own painful periods, the author discusses how doctors are quick to prescribe birth control pills and antidepressants to treat painful periods, rather than investigating the problem to find out whether the cause of pain is endometriosis, a condition where endometrial tissue forms outside the uterus. It is thought that around 10% of ovulating women in the US have endometriosis and it takes an average of ten years for accurate diagnosis. The author discusses the need to raise the visibility of dysmenorrhea and endometriosis so that medical research takes it on as a serious issue.
  23. Content Article
    Worldwide, most Caesarean sections (CS) are performed under neuraxial anaesthesia. However, neuraxial anaesthesia can fail and intraoperative breakthrough pain can occur. The aim of this study from Roofthooft et al. was to evaluate the incidence of breakthrough pain in consecutive CS and to describe the potential risk factors for breakthrough pain. In a two centre, prospective audit all CS performed under neuraxial anesthesia were included and the occurrence of breakthrough pain as well as all possible risk factors of breakthrough pain were recorded as well as the alternative anesthetic strategy.
  24. Content Article
    Vaginal mesh implants were introduced in the late 1990s as a routine treatment for stress urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse, common complications following childbirth. However, these flexible plastic scaffolds have led to life-altering complications for many women including nerve damage, chronic pain, and several reported deaths. This blog outlines the story of vaginal mesh, from the 1990s to the present day.
  25. Content Article
    This report by the US non-profit organisation the Emergency Care Research Institute (ECRI) was commissioned by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to determine the safety profile of polypropylene (PP) mesh used in a variety of surgical procedures. ECRI performed a comprehensive literature search and systematic review to identify the current state of knowledge about how patients' bodies respond to PP mesh.
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