Australian mesh device manufacturer failed to show how benefits outweighed risks

By Joanne McCarthy
Updated May 7 2016 - 7:56am, first published 7:54am
Devastated: Gai Thompson warned Australia's peak health regulators of a looming disaster associated with mesh devices for women with prolapse after pregnancy or childbirth. She is now one of many women campaigning for a Senate inquiry.
Devastated: Gai Thompson warned Australia's peak health regulators of a looming disaster associated with mesh devices for women with prolapse after pregnancy or childbirth. She is now one of many women campaigning for a Senate inquiry.

AUSTRALIA’s peak health regulator cancelled an Australian-made mesh device implanted in thousands of women after the manufacturer failed to show how the benefits of mesh implants outweighed the risks, and questions about a “large discrepancy” in reported problems.

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