Failing medical implants are causing hundreds of thousands of people misery
(WorldNews Health)

edwardolive/Shutterstock Thousands of women across the world have been left in terrible pain after being implanted with transvaginal mesh - a device to treat urinary incontinence or prolapse. How did a medical implant that has caused so much damage to these women´s bodies and lives come to be sold? Most people probably have a good idea of how drugs are tested and approved - through clinical trials and placebos - but they probably don´t know how medical implants make it onto the market. If a headache pill that works for four hours has undergone clinical trials, what about an artificial hip that has to last for 40 years inside you? The truth is, that for most medical implants, no clinical...