Use of metal-on-metal hip implants has been declining in recent years, in response to concerns that they may pose a safety risk for patients who receive them.
According to a Bloomberg report, use of the devices peaked in 2006 and 2007, when the metal-on-metal variety accounted for an estimated 30 percent of the market. Now the all-metal implant, with both a ...
continue reading...The European Medicines Agency has announced it’s investigating reports that Swiss drug maker Roche AG failed to properly report about 80,000 reports of possible side effects in the U.S.
According to a report on Medical Xpress, European regulators spotted the problems during a routine inspection. The inspectors found that Roche had not properly analyzed the accounts of possible side effects to see if they were truly suspected adverse events that needed to be officially reported.
The reports included many different types of ...
continue reading...The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says patients who received Johnson & Johnson’s all-metal hip replacements need more frequent testing, according to Bloomberg.
In light of almost 16,800 reports of problems with all-metal hip implants since 2000, federal regulators hope that precaution will help prevent risky replacement surgery for some recipients. The FDA recommendation was part of a report advising members ...
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A U.S. Food and Drug Administration panel holding a two-day forum about metal-on-metal hip implants will discuss widely reported problems with the devices, but will not make a decision on whether or not to ban them.
A report in U.S. News and World Report about the panel quotes an FDA spokeswoman as saying: “During the panel meeting, FDA will discuss failure rates and modes for these devices, as well as any ...
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A recent report in Scientific American takes a look at a faulty heart device that’s been responsible for at least 20 deaths.
According to the article, implantable defibrillator leads are wires that connect defibrillators – devices similar to pacemakers – to the heart. “Over the past decade, the $10 billion heart device industry has seen several high profile cases of malfunctioning products that posed severe risks to patients,” the article states.
The ...
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On Wednesday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will begin a two-day hearing into all-metal hip implants, examining reports that the devices are causing debilitating health problems for a large proportion of the patients who receive them.
A report on Boston.com says the all-metal implants – in which both the ball and sockets are coated with metal – were originally introduced ...
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