In a blog entry for the Philadelphia Inquirer, writer David Sell points out that two makers of problematic medical devices called vaginal mesh implants recently suffered significant setbacks on the same day.
A jury in Atlantic City awarded $7.8 million in punitive damages to a former nurse who claimed that chronic pain forced her to stop working and obliged her to undergo 18 operations. In her lawsuit, she claimed her health problems started after she was implanted with a mesh device ...
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In 2007, marketing executives with Johnson & Johson’s DePuy Orthopaedics division discussed their concerns about the company’s ASR artificial hip implants leaving ions from toxic metal debris in patients’ bodies.
According to a story in the Huffington Post, a Pennsylvania company called Geisinger Health System has received a $1 million grant to study possible health impacts of natural gas drilling on the Marcellus Shale — a gas-rich underground rock formation that extends into Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio and West Virginia.
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.
