Posts Tagged 'hip implants'

Columnist: Preemptive implant removal a bad idea

A medical columnist for the British newspaper Daily Mail writes that patients should not get all-metal hip implants removed simply because they’re worried over recent reports about the devices.

Dr. Ellie Cannon acknowledged that patients who received the implants in question are likely to be alarmed about two widely reported problems. The first problem associated with these implants is that studies show the all-metal variety of artificial hip fails at a substantially earlier rate than other types, causing pain and loss ...

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NPR broadcast examines faulty hip implants

National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition” on Monday provided an in-depth look at the problems that recipients of DePuy’s all-metal hip implants are dealing with. The company recalled the implants in 2010 because of a high early failure rate.

The broadcast actually went into the operating room at Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital, where New Hampshire resident Susy Mansfield was undergoing surgery to remove one of the faulty devices.

The surgeon described for listeners the dead muscle and the staining on Mansfield’s tissue from ...

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Departing Johnson & Johnson CEO Weldon getting $143.5 million

Departing Johnson & Johnson Chief Executive Officer William C. Weldon, who is leaving after a spate of disastrous recalls, will get $143.5 million in retirement pay, according to Bloomberg.

Bloomberg reports that Weldon, 63, will remain chairman. He amassed $95.1 million in deferred and long-term compensation during his 40 years with the company, and his pension has a present value of $48.4 million.

The report mentions that the company struggled with recalls of artificial hip implants and over-the-counter drugs, and safety concerns ...

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Report accuses maker of recalled artificial hips, J&J, of hypocrisy

A report by the American Association for Justice accuses the corporation Johnson & Johnson of hypocrisy for lobbying to prevent individual lawsuits against the company, while suing others to further its goals.

J&J is a board member of the Institute for Legal Reform, an arm of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The ILR has the stated goal of “tort reform,” which the AAJ translates as an attempt to restrict “access [to] the civil justice system” by individuals.

But even as the corporation ...

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Consumer group calls for reform of FDA approval process

The independent nonprofit Consumer Reports has undertaken a national campaign to change the process by which the federal Food and Drug Administration approves medical devices, according to a report in the Chicago Tribune.

Consumer Reports says the agency’s approval of metal-on-metal hip implants and transvaginal mesh implants – both of which have led to thousands of reported cases of debilitating health problems — illustrate why reforming the process is necessary.

According to the Tribune, Consumer Reports President Jim Guest sent an email ...

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Another report warns about metal-on-metal hip implants

A study published March 13 in The Lancet, one of the world’s most respected medical journals, calls on doctors to stop using metal-on-metal hip replacement devices because of concerns about high early failure rates and potentially toxic metal debris leaching off and getting into patients’ bloodstreams.

According to a report by CBS News, British researchers analyzed more than 400,000 hip replacements from the National Joint Registry of England and Wales between 2003 and 2011. They found that almost 6 percent of ...

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