*Correction appended. When Aaron Leigh Horton’s mother received a plastic mesh implant in 2009 to repair her pelvic organ prolapse, a type of pelvic floor disorder, she expected her pain to recede.

Plastic mesh tape was introduced 30 years ago by the NHS as a cheap alternative, but there was little testing of its long-term safety before it was put on the market.

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 ...

They implanted plastic mesh for pelvic prolapse and a hernia. “They never told me what could happen and a year to the day I had a strangulated hernia.

Testing on the plastic material used in vaginal mesh implants "is way less than you would see on a vacuum cleaner or a washing machine", a world expert has told Sky News.

Industrial design graduate Gwen Gage's has created a plastic mesh to connect medication boxes together to allow easier delivery of malaria medicine in remote sub-Saharan African villages.