Recently, more and more women in America and around the world have looked for other birth control options than the pill. Many women have turned to […]

What is Mirena? Mirena is known as an intrauterine system (IUS) or intrauterine device (IUD) which is meant to be inserted by a medical professional during […]

On June 4 of this year, Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Ethicon, Inc. chose to recall four of its vaginal mesh devices from the medical technology market […]

What is Surgical Mesh? Transvaginal surgical mesh is a medical piece of equipment that is typically used to mend weakened or injured tissue. This mesh implant […]

Ethicon, Inc. was founded in 1949 as a subsidiary of parent company Johnson & Johnson as a way to offer a larger selection of products, including […]

Johnson & Johnson’s Ethicon, Inc. unit developed the line of Gynecare products in order to help treat a variety of Women’s Health medical issues. Unfortunately, several […]

Pelvic mesh erosion was recently named the number one most frequently occurring and reported complication of vaginal mesh surgery by the US Food and Drug Administration. […]

The FDA has declared surgical mesh used in the treatment for pelvic organ prolapse and stress urinary incontinence as an area of ongoing concern. In July […]

Following child birth, surgery, or as a woman ages, sometimes the muscles and tissues in the pelvic region will lose elasticity and become weakened. As this […]