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Inside Health: Vaginal mesh; alcohol and the heart

10/10/2017

Vaginal mesh; alcohol and the heart

BBC Radio 4 - Inside Health, Vaginal mesh; alcohol and the heart

Complications of vaginal mesh implants, plus alcohol and the heart.

Vaginal mesh implants have hit the news as women pursue litigation due to complications. And is there evidence that moderate drinking is good for the heart?

Vaginal mesh, used for the treatment of prolapse and incontinence, has hit the news recently as women pursue 
litigation after suffering serious complications. But there have been concerns ever since the first type of vaginal
mesh was launched in the mid-nineties, only to be withdrawn a few years later. Carl Heneghan, Professor of Evidence Based Medicine
at the University of Oxford, explains the 'shambolic' regulation of medical devices, Consultant gynaecologist Swati Jha, who has been collecting data on
mesh for over a decade, believes media coverage has been muddled. Women speak of living with surgery, while Inside Health's 
Dr Margaret McCartney calls for a registry to collect effective data. 

Plus, new guidance in Scotland challenges the so called 'J-shaped curve' - evidence that moderate drinking is good for the heart. 
Naveed Sattar, Professor of Metabolic Medicine at the University of Glasgow and part of the committee that produced the updated guidance, 
talks to Mark Porter about the changes.

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