Since 2014 the Newcastle Herald’s Joanne McCarthy has reported on how transvaginal mesh devices to treat women’s incontinence were developed in Australia and Sweden; how an Australian-invented incontinence device was cleared for use in America to treat prolapse; how device manufacturers developed more transvaginal prolapse devices, and how tens of thousands of women around the world suffered serious to catastrophic injuries until regulators belatedly acted.
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Women are finally being heard. The question is why it took so long.
- Peak health body scathing on mesh
- Australian Medical Association president confirms AMA WA's role in pelvic mesh
- Hinch predicts mesh cover-ups
- Plan to make mash high risk
- Health data not where it counts
- Clash of mesh figures
- Questions over mesh moves
- Like living in hell
- Perth women used as guinea pigs
- Doctor’s going sailing
- Trust betrayed, now let’s hear from patients
- Patients, not practitioners, need protection
- Doctors accused of turning a blind eye
- First do no harm
- Top priority for mesh inquiry
- QANDA – Pelvic mesh
- Watchdog to investigate how hospital was kept in dark
- Male company rep attended a woman's surgery without her knowledge
- Regulators failed across the board
- 700 women set for battle
- Hazzard orders mesh photography review
- “I would not want my wife to undergo this procedure”
- Mesh victims in landmark action
- Top priority for mesh inquiry
- Regulators failed across board on mesh
- Male company rep at surgery
- Minister orders mesh photography review
- ‘I would not want my wife to undergo this procedure’
- Mesh exposes a system that has failed
- Victim’s anguish at missed warnings
- College slammed for backing pelvic slings
- A Hunter health service’s link to high risk pig intestine pelvic mesh
- ‘It’s so awful and private’
- ‘I felt like I’d been raped’
- Mesh in ‘stabbing’ incident
- Regulator quietly reveals pelvic mesh risk
- Doctor denies being blind to mesh risk
- A global decade of disaster
- Scandal’s Australian backstory
- Whistle was blown on pelvic mesh
- ‘We were guinea pigs’
- ‘This will be the most important thing I do here’
- Senate approves inquiry into mesh
- Tribunal told mesh device evidence very poor
- Hinch backs women of medical scandal
- Health watchdog cops steep rise in doctor complaints
- States launch US mesh lawsuits
- ‘We are the evidence of what’s gone wrong’
- Report reveals mesh device concers
- Rally by women silenced by pain
- ‘Our lives are being destroyed and no one cares’
- Son’s fear for mother broken by mesh surgery
- Women pay the price on mesh
- When regulators fail, we need to know why
- Doctor under investigation for mesh surgeries
- Watchdog investigates mesh
- Mesh maker modifies but files changes
- Regulator failed women on mesh
- Medical mesh concerns raised
- Mesh implant field lacks rules: surgeon
- ‘I almost died from blood loss’
- Court to hear $1 million claim against Richard Reid
- Women pay the price for a most private medical disaster
- Patient almost died in surgery
- Wallsend mum’s medical nightmare
- Hunter women join mesh implant class action
- Medical council stops Reid from doing major surgery
- US discipline for surgeon
- Implant specialist appeals against Medical Council caution
- Patients spark official protest
- Doctor’s novel medical methods in the spotlight
If you are suffering from pelvic mesh surgery and want to speak to someone, visit the Australian Pelvic Mesh Support Group on Facebook.
Senator Derryn Hinch’s office is creating a list of Australians who have been impacted by this pelvic mesh devices and need additional information from those who have affected.
If you would like to be part of the process, please email carly.gibbs@aph.gov.au.
