Posts Tagged 'Johnson & Johnson'

FDA recalls DePuy Orthopaedics device

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced the recall of a medical device made by Johnson & Johnson subsidiary DePuy Orthopaedics, Fox News reports.

The device, called the LPS Diaphyseal Sleeve, is used in reconstructive knee surgery and was recalled because of the potential for fractures, according to the report.

DePuy is currently facing legal action for another joint replacement device. Approximately 10,000 plaintiffs have filed lawsuits regarding injuries caused by ...

Categories: Depuy Hip Replacements, Drug and Medical Device Lawsuits, Health, Product Liability, Product News and Recalls, Recall

Tags: debris, DePuy, early failure, hip implants, Johnson & Johnson, lawsuits, metal-on-metal

Closing arguments to begin in DePuy hip trial

Closing arguments are set to begin in a California trial concerning all-metal hip implants manufactured by Johnson & Johnson subsidiary DePuy Orthopaedics, according to a story in the Los Angeles Times.

The plaintiff claims he suffered metal poisoning and other health problems from DePuy’s ASR hip replacement device, which he had implanted in 2007. Johnson & Johnson recalled about 93,000 of ...

Categories: Depuy Hip Replacements, Drug and Medical Device Lawsuits, Health, Legal Issues, Product Liability, Product News and Recalls, Recall, Verdicts & Settlements

Tags: debris, DePuy, early failure, hip implants, Johnson & Johnson, lawsuits, metal-on-metal

Hip joints under investigation are among many recalls

A story in the Minneapolis Star Tribune notes that Johnson & Johnson’s hip joints, currently the basis of an investigation by federal prosecutors, were part of a string of 30 recalls by the company over the past three-and-a-half years.

Johnson & Johnson revealed the government investigation in a recent report to the Securities and Exchange Commission.

According to the regulatory filing, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts and the Civil Division of ...

Categories: Depuy Hip Replacements, Drug and Medical Device Lawsuits, Health, Legal Issues, Product Liability, Product News and Recalls

Tags: debris, DePuy, early failure, hip implants, Johnson & Johnson, lawsuits, metal-on-metal

J&J recalls another metal hip component

Posted February 25, 2013 in Depuy Hip Replacements | Drug and Medical Device Lawsuits | Product Liability | Product News and Recalls

Johnson & Johnson has recalled a metal hip component sold outside the United States, called Adept modular heads, Reuters reports.

The company is already facing about 10,000 lawsuits connected to another model of all-metal hip implant called the ASR, which was recalled in 2010 over its tendency to break down early and leave toxic metal debris in patients’ bodies.

The Reuters story ...

Categories: Depuy Hip Replacements, Drug and Medical Device Lawsuits, Product Liability, Product News and Recalls

Tags: debris, DePuy, early failure, hip implants, Johnson & Johnson, lawsuits, metal-on-metal

J&J suppressed warnings about hip implant

A story in U.K. newspaper The Telegraph says Johnson & Johnson employees were not only aware of problems with its ASR hip implant for years before the device’s 2010 recall, but actively discussed manipulating data to conceal those problems.

Studies show that nearly half of the implants, made by Johnson & Johnson subsidiary DePuy Orthopaedics, break down and need replacement after only a few years. They also have a tendency to ...

Categories: Depuy Hip Replacements, Drug and Medical Device Lawsuits, Health, Legal Issues, Product Liability, Product News and Recalls, Recall

Tags: debris, DePuy, early failure, hip implants, Johnson & Johnson, lawsuits, metal-on-metal

Editorial: Hip implant maker has ‘explaining to do’

An editorial in the New York Times takes Johnson & Johnson subsidiary DePuy Orthopaedics to task for apparently sitting on evidence that a line of its hip implants posed a danger to patients.

“Though the company says the evidence will ultimately show that it acted appropriately, it clearly has a lot of explaining to do,” the editorial says.

The model in question ...

Categories: Depuy Hip Replacements, Drug and Medical Device Lawsuits, Health, Legal Issues, Product Liability, Product News and Recalls, Recall

Tags: debris, DePuy, early failure, hip implants, Johnson & Johnson, lawsuits, metal-on-metal

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Posts Tagged 'Johnson & Johnson'

FDA recalls DePuy Orthopaedics device

Closing arguments to begin in DePuy hip trial

Hip joints under investigation are among many recalls

J&J recalls another metal hip component

J&J suppressed warnings about hip implant

Editorial: Hip implant maker has ‘explaining to do’

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