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Vaginal mesh implants

February 2024

  • MP Yasmin Qureshi (fourth from left) and Marie Lyon, chair of the Association for Children Damaged by Hormone Pregnancy Tests (second from right), with families affected by the drug Primodos in 2017.

    Primodos patients ‘betrayed’ after being left out of health scandals redress report

    Families who may have been affected by hormone pregnancy tests not included in patient safety commissioner’s review

November 2023

  • Yvette Greenway-Mansfield

    Woman who suffered complications from vaginal mesh implant awarded at least £1m

    Exclusive: Yvette Greenway-Mansfield given compensation after Coventry’s University Hospital was found to be medically negligent

June 2022

  • Kath Sansom, campaigner against vaginal mesh with her dog Pepper. Photographed in Hunstanton, 9 April 2022

    Guardian angel
    The people making a difference: she was devastated by vaginal-mesh surgery. Now she helps others recover

    Kath Sansom’s surgery changed her life forever – and motived her to lobby for its halt

February 2021

  • Vaginal mesh

    Johnson & Johnson appeal plays down importance of vaginal mesh product brochures

    Company begins appeal in Sydney against landmark 2019 ruling, claiming it had numerous legal errors

July 2020

  • Rebecca Oates, a participant in a class action against Johnson & Johnson over dangerous vaginal meshes

    Fears a crackdown on class actions in Australia could let big businesses 'do what they like'

  • Vaginal mesh implants

    The Guardian view on a women’s health scandal: under the skin

  • Barbara Ellen

    Doctors have failed when women in agony are dismissed as hysterics

    Barbara Ellen
  • Richard Vize

    Pelvic mesh scandal is what happens when men with power ignore women

    Richard Vize
  • Trust in UK healthcare system 'seriously broken', inquiry finds

  • 'I trusted my doctors': the women fighting for justice after medical procedures

  • Denial of women's concerns contributed to decades of medical scandals, says inquiry

March 2020

  • Rebecca Jancauskas from Shine Lawyers speaks on behalf of victims outside the federal court in Sydney last November when the vaginal mesh class action judgement was handed down

    Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay $2.6m in damages over vaginal mesh implants

    Federal court orders pharmaceutical giant to pay costs and damages to three lead applicants in Australian class action

February 2020

  • Prof Sue Black (left) with the Women’s Equality party leader, Mandu Reid

    Women's Equality party candidate pulls out of London mayoral race

    Mandu Reid will replace Sue Black, who was forced to withdraw after vaginal mesh implant complications

November 2019

  • Vaginal mesh implants

    Australian women win landmark vaginal mesh class action against Johnson & Johnson

    The case was launched on behalf of 700 women who had pelvic mesh and tape products implanted to treat common complications of childbirth

April 2019

  • Vaginal mesh

    Vaginal mesh: new guidelines insufficient, say campaigners

    Measures could lead to next generation of women being harmed, says Sling the Mesh

February 2019

  • Vaginal mesh implants

    Government accepts 'debilitating' effects of medical implants

    Recognition that commercial interests had trumped patient safety follows Guardian exposé

November 2018

  • A vaginal mesh implant

    The implant files
    Pharma firm sold mesh implant despite pain warnings

  • Implant Essure coil contraceptive

    Today in Focus
    Untested and unsafe: the medical implants scandal

  • Dawn Foster

    The gender pain gap is real. Doctors, stop dismissing women’s conditions

    Dawn Foster
  • A silicone breast implant

    The implant files
    The Guardian view on medical implants: patients need protecting

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