Product News and Recalls

Recalls a factor in CEO’s departure

An Associated Press story about the imminent retirement of longtime Johnson & Johnson CEO Bill Weldon mentions his company’s succession of product recalls over the last two years.

Weldon became the company’s CEO in 2002.

According to the story, there were more than two dozen recalls of nonprescription drugs and at least two for prescription drugs since 2009.

There were also recalls of about 25 medical devices and consumer products. Federal regulators have had three of the company’s factories under scrutiny, and shut ...

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Bayer expects more lawsuits, according to report

Bayer has about 11,300 lawsuits pending from “persons alleged to have suffered personal injuries, some of them fatal” as a result of using the birth control pills Yasmin, Beyaz, and Yaz and their generic versions. And the company is expecting even more.

That’s from Bayer’s annual report, assessing the company’s status for 2011. The report provides a summation of the legal troubles the company has been dealing with over its oral contraceptives, which according to the lawsuits, cause an increased risk ...

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Yaz maker Bayer bidding on pricey acquisition

According to Bloomberg, German corporation Bayer is bidding on Pfizer’s animal-health unit.

Bayer’s chief financial officer said last month that the company planned to cut its debt by $1.3 billion to give it more flexibility for a potential takeover.

According to the report, the Pfizer unit could fetch between $14 billion and $18 billion.

See the report here:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-07/bayer-is-said-to-consider-making-offer-for-pfizer-s-animal-health-division.html

Bayer is the manufacturer of Yaz, Yasmin, Beyaz, and Ocella — birth control pills that contain the compound drospirenone.

Those pills have served as the ...

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50,000 U.K. patients need yearly testing from hip implant

About 50,000 hip replacement patients in England and Wales will require annual medical tests to ensure that their metal-on-metal hip implants aren’t causing them potentially crippling complications, British newspaper The Independent reports.

That reflects the number of patients with large hip implants who will need annual blood tests to check their metal ion levels, including about 10,000 people with implants manufactured by DePuy, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson.

The risk with the metal-on-metal implants – which use a metal coating for ...

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Medical groups voice concerns about transvaginal mesh implants

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the American Urogynecologic Society recently issued a joint statement expressing the organizations’ concerns about the safety and effectiveness of transvaginal mesh implants to treat the condition pelvic organ prolapse.

In the statement, the groups say there’s an “urgent need” for a national registry to track outcomes for all current and future patients who get the procedure.

Pelvic organ prolapse occurs when there’s stretching or tearing of the pelvic floor muscles and connective tissue holding ...

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Medical groups voice concerns about transvaginal mesh implants

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the American Urogynecologic Society recently issued a joint statement expressing the organizations’ concerns about the safety and effectiveness of transvaginal mesh implants to treat the condition pelvic organ prolapse.

In the statement, the groups say there’s an “urgent need” for a national registry to track outcomes for all current and future patients who get the procedure.

Pelvic organ prolapse occurs when there’s stretching or tearing of the pelvic floor muscles and connective tissue holding ...

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