May 20 (Reuters) - American Medical Systems, a major defendant in litigation over controversial vaginal mesh devices, is accusing "a pyramid of businessmen, doctors and lawyers" of luring women into ...

As safer alternatives for hernia mesh materials come to market, we expect rates of chronic pain from chronic inflammation to polypropylene and the resulting neuropathic pain to substantially decrease.

Rizzo said her lender, MedStar, paid her surgeon, John Miklos, $17,000 for a mesh removal operation. A spokeswoman for Miklos declined to comment. Rizzo’s health insurer, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of ...

Mesh pain predominantly started within first 5 years of insertion, over a quarter of all patients developed symptoms after mesh had been in for over 6 years The long-term risk of mesh-associated pain ...

The total number of mesh-removal surgeries involving medical funders could be much higher. In a different court filing, Christensen said that as many as 3,750 of the 125,000 medical bills MedStar ...