Therapeutic Goods Administration warnings about transvaginal mesh device complications are 'too little, too late'

By Joanne McCarthy
Updated April 26 2017 - 2:25pm, first published March 16 2017 - 5:00am

AUSTRALIA’S medical device gatekeeper and peak health regulator only listed 30 serious complications linked to women’s pelvic mesh surgery for the first time in 2016, more than two years after requiring manufacturers to provide evidence to back mesh devices, and after a meeting with women suffering mesh complications.

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