The Newcastle Herald shows how a global women's health catastrophe started in Australia

Pelvic mesh: Suffer in silence

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..