It's a strip of plastic called gynecological mesh. The manufacturers and several medical societies say the implant is safe. But more than 100,000 women are suing. And together, they make up the ...

CR Bard Inc. sold vaginal-mesh devices made of a plastic that its manufacturer warned wasn’t suitable for human implantation, according to unsealed court records. Managers at Bard’s Davol unit ...

But mesh campaigners told The Independent that they don’t feel any plastic material should be used for a vaginal implant. Previous implants were made of the plastic polypropylene, the same ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

These four are just some of the more than 6,000 women left maimed or crippled by the use of plastic mesh implants — introduced as a cheap operation for those with incontinence or prolapse.

David Beaver from Dotmar Engineered Plastic Products tells us about their moulded products division and its capabilities.The moulded products division caters for injection moulded and extruded plastic ...

Schools, hackerspaces, home workshops, you name it. Most of these machines are of the extruded-filament variety, better known as FDM or Fused Deposition Modelling. Over the last few years ...