Shock as landmark judgment reveals what the Therapeutic Goods Administration didn't know

By Joanne McCarthy
Updated December 27 2019 - 11:19am, first published December 5 2019 - 5:00am
Support: Child sexual abuse campaigner Chrissie Foster with Joan Isaacs, who was sexually abused by a Catholic priest as a child, and suffered severe and permanent injuries in 2011 after she was implanted with a Johnson & Johnson Prolift pelvic mesh device. Picture: Supplied.
Support: Child sexual abuse campaigner Chrissie Foster with Joan Isaacs, who was sexually abused by a Catholic priest as a child, and suffered severe and permanent injuries in 2011 after she was implanted with a Johnson & Johnson Prolift pelvic mesh device. Picture: Supplied.

AUSTRALIA'S medical device watchdog was kept in the dark for nearly a decade about a pelvic mesh device's contribution to a woman's death in 2010 after accepting Johnson & Johnson advice the troubled Prolift device had not caused her death.

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