A unit of Johnson & Johnson has issued a recall for certain lots of bone putty, which is used to stop bone bleeding by creating a physical barrier along the edges of bones damaged by trauma or cut during a surgical procedure.
Reuters reports that Synthes issued the recall on July 5, citing the potential for the putty to catch fire if it came in contact with electrosurgical cautery systems during ...
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A cardiologist who conducted a study of St. Jude Medical defibrillator leads said surgeons should stop implanting them in patients until more research is done about safety concerns surrounding the devices.
The New York Times quotes Dr. Robert G. Hauser of Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis as saying: “There is no need to use this lead until we have more confidence in its performance.”
The devices are wires that connect a patient’s ...
continue reading...According to the New York Times, Johnson & Johnson has pledged to remove a number of potentially harmful chemicals, including formaldehyde, from its line of consumer products by the end of 2015.
Although the company had already pledged to remove certain chemicals from its baby products by 2013, the new announcement extends the program to its adult products. Johnson & Johnson is the first major consumer products company to make such ...
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Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay about $600,000 to resolve three cases in the first settlements of lawsuits related to the company’s all-metal hip implants, Bloomberg reports.
The report, which cites unnamed sources, says officials with Johnson & Johnson’s DePuy unit recently agreed to settle Nevada residents’ suits over the devices, which were recalled in 2010.
The hip implants in question ...
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The U.S. Food and Drug administration has ordered St. Jude Medical to do additional studies on patients implanted with medical device components that are blamed in as many as 20 deaths.
According to the New York Times, the FDA has also recommended that patients who received the Riata defibrillator lead — a wire that connects a defibrillator to a patient’s heart — get X-rays or other imaging to check for problems.
The ...
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A story from the U.K.’s “Manchester Evening News” tells the story of a 57-year-old mother of two who spent months unable to work or leave her house because of a DePuy all-metal artificial hip implant.
Sally Gration, 57, underwent hip replacement surgery in February 2006 to treat hip dysplasia, or a malformed hip joint.
Initially, the surgery appeared to be successful. But she began suffering excruciating pain in 2010 – the year ...
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