Australia's medical device regulator acts after women's outrage

By Joanne McCarthy
Updated October 30 2017 - 1:18pm, first published 1:17pm
Action: Australian Pelvic Mesh Support Group members outraged by the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration's years of mesh device approvals.
Action: Australian Pelvic Mesh Support Group members outraged by the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration's years of mesh device approvals.

AUSTRALIA’S peak drug and medical device regulator will require stronger evidence from pelvic mesh manufacturers after legal action by women and a Senate inquiry that has exposed the lack of evidence before mesh devices were approved for use more than a decade ago.

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