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Money graphic, WikiCommons “Application of Evidence-Based Value Analysis: Standardization of Surgical Mesh Products” In this White Paper, Winifred Hayes, a medical efficiency analyst, known as, “Your...
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September 19, 2012 ~ Last January, after a five-fold increase in complications was noted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) concerning synthetic mesh used in women to treat pelvic organ...
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Removed hernia mesh plug, Dr. Kevin Peterson November 28, 2012 ~ The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been updating pages on mesh used for hernia repair. Unlike transvaginal mesh, also made...
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Aaron Leigh Horton Your Call to be a Mesh Warrior July 21, 2013, by Aaron Leigh Horton, themeshwarrior@gmail.com For many of us, family members of those implanted with transvaginal mesh, life is...
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Biofilm cluster, UC Berkeley University of California, Berkeley researchers hope to attack something called biofilms, which house bacterial infections protecting them from antibiotics. New research...
View ArticleDr. Twiss Part II: On the Basics of Medicine and Biocompatible Materials for...
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View ArticleBoston Scientific Opening Arguments in Mass. Court
Judge Diane M. Kottmyer Today was Day One for opening arguments in the trial of Diane Albright v. Boston Scientific being heard in Middlesex Co. Superior Court in Woburn, Massachusetts. It appears to...
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