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• Gun Makers Facing Increasing Liability for Nation’s Gun Violence Problem
  In general, manufacturers are held to at least some standard of liability for the safety implications of their products in America. Whether it’s the products themselves or how they are marketed, corporations and manufacturers that make products for Americans know that the time may come when an ite...

• Another Johnson & Johnson Unit, Another Recall
  While Johnson & Johnson might be a household name, the names of its subsidiary units are a bit less well known. Names like Ethicon and DePuy fly under the radar for all but those that have been negatively affected by their products’ defects while Johnson & Johnson remains known as the make...

• Ethicon Pulls Another Device Off the Market
  Ethicon’s decision to pull its Physiomesh surgical mesh off the market earlier this year is just one more in a string of failures for the medical device unit of Johnson & Johnson. The decision comes from mounting evidence of a higher number of revision surgeries associated with Physiomesh than...

• Boston Scientific Faces Smuggling Accusations as Resin Supply Comes into Question
  A major class action vaginal mesh lawsuit was filed earlier this year in West Virginia against Boston Scientific, a worldwide manufacturer and marketer of medical devices based in Massachusetts. The suit alleges that the corporation knowingly used counterfeit ingredients in the production of its tra...

• FDA Not Doing Enough to Protect Women
  A study conducted by researchers at Northwestern University has concluded that the FDA has largely failed in its responsibility of protecting women from faulty or poorly designed medical devices. Of the 18 devices approved between 2000 and 2015 for high risk application to women’s medical care; in...

• The FDA’s New Year Resolution
  As New Year’s Day came and went, millions of people across the country considered their resolutions for 2016. Statistically, most probably resolved to lose a few pounds. Others thought about reading more, taking a class or two, becoming more patient, or bettering themselves in some other way. It l...

• IVC Filter Cases Consolidated in MDL; Lopez McHugh Taking Referrals
  A year-long investigation by NBC Nightly News has raised serious questions about why medical device manufacturer C.R. Bard, Inc. continued to sell and market its inferior vena cava (IVC) filters even after it seems to have become aware that its filters were failing and causing death and other seriou...

• J&J CEO’s Pay Rises 48%
  Johnson & Johnson Chairman and Chief Executive Alex Gorsky’s total pay rose 48 percent in 2014, an article from the Wall Street Journal Reports. Board members say they made the decision based on Johnson & Johnson’s success in achieving short- and long-term financial goals and building ...

• J&J Fined $25 Million over Tylenol Products Containing Metal Particles
  Johnson & Johnson’s subsidiary company, McNeil Consumer Healthcare, has agreed to pay $25 million in settlements after pleading guilty to selling infants’ and children’s over-the-counter liquid medicine containing metal particles, an AP article reports. McNeil admits failing to take prope...

• Urinary Incontinence Treatment Options
  CNN Health is providing online coverage of a Harvard Special Report discussing the available treatments for urinary incontinence. Treatment options typically vary between men and women and are based on the cause of the urinary incontinence. Obviously, patients suffering from incontinence will need t...