Under this new law, individual, group, and Article 43 commercial health insurance policies must now cover these medically necessary procedures when recommended by nationally recognized clinical ...

Transvaginal ultrasounds are solidly on the list of “medical procedures no one wants but you’ll probably need at some point anyway.” This type of ultrasound can be useful if your doctor needs to get a ...

Shortly after securing an FDA clearance this year for its transvaginal robotic surgery system, Memic Innovative Surgery has now raised $96 million to kickstart its marketing efforts and scale up ...

Johnson & Johnson and its Ethicon division have reached a deal with the attorneys general of 41 states and the District of Columbia, agreeing to settle claims that it deceptively advertised and ...

(Reuters) - A Michigan medical funder was ordered to pay about $1.3 million on Monday for his role in a scheme to convince women to have unnecessary surgery to remove their transvaginal mesh implants ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Medtronic Plc's Covidien unit has agreed to settle some of the more than 11,000 claims involving its transvaginal mesh devices, which patients allege caused severe and painful ...

WASHINGTON — Sen. Lindsey Graham's national 15-week abortion ban would likely force many women to undergo invasive transvaginal ultrasounds before terminating pregnancies, according to doctors. Under ...

Jihad Kaouk, MD, Director of the Center for Laparoscopic and Robotic Surgery, and his team performed the world's first completely transvaginal nephrectomy on March 13, 2009. Jihad Kaouk, MD, Director ...

CHICAGO — The ban on further sales of transvaginal mesh for pelvic organ prolapse (POP) imposed by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last month has some people cheering, some saying that an ...

Where have the late-night comedians and comic strip authors been for the past year? Why did it take a debate among Virginia lawmakers to spur outrage about a government requirement that women seeking ...

Manufacturers of surgical mesh products must stop selling and distributing their products in the United States immediately, the US Food and Drug Administration ordered Tuesday. The FDA said it “has ...