During a trial centering on Johnson & Johnson’s ASR hip implants, Bloomberg reports, a biomedical engineering expert told the jury that the devices had multiple design flaws.
Johnson & Johnson recalled the all-metal implants, manufactured by subsidiary DePuy Orthopaedics, in 2010. At the time, the company said 12 percent fail within five years. Subsequent studies found that nearly half of them ...
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A 2011 internal report from Johnson & Johnson concluded that the company’s metal-on-metal hip implants would fail within five years in nearly 40 percent of patients, requiring them to undergo painful and costly replacement procedures.
A story in the New York Times says Johnson & Johnson recalled the device, made by subsidiary DePuy Orthopaedics, in 2010. Yet even as the company ...
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Legal documents released in Johnson & Johnson’s trial regarding all-metal hip implants reveal that the company was aware of problems with the devices in 2008 – two years before recalling them, the Wall Street Journal reports.
For example, the company was in possession of clinical data showing “extreme” levels of metal ions in patients who received the devices, compared to patients who received a product from a rival company. The all-metal ...
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Reporters with the U.K. newspaper The Daily Telegraph and the British Medical Journal visited a Slovakian firm as part of an undercover investigation into the European Union’s approval process for medical devices. The firm, EVPU, is one of the private companies authorized to license medical implants for the EU.
Posing as representatives of a fictitious Chinese company, the reporters presented plans for an all-metal artificial hip joint. Those plans were overtly ...
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Researchers in the U.K. have recommended that women not receive all-metal hip replacements because of the procedure’s early failure rate, Bloomberg reports.
In a study published in the Lancet medical journal, scientists who analyzed data from the National Joint Registry for England and Wales found that women experience more problems than men in the seven years after surgery. They also found that “metal-on-metal” resurfacing implants fail more quickly than total hip ...
continue reading...According to a Bloomberg story, nearly 16,800 adverse events associated with metal-on-metal hip implants were reported in the United States from 2000 through 2011.
Metal-on-metal hip implants, which have both a ball and socket coated in an alloy made of cobalt and chromium, were originally introduced as an ostensibly more durable alternative to earlier plastic and ceramic models. But a number ...
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