According to the Wall Street Journal, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning about more than 900 reported problems from inferior vena cava, or IVC filters, meant to catch blood clots.
Although the FDA didn’t detail the number of reports by manufacturer, the Wall Street Journal says, a separate report published in the Archives of Internal Medicine found problems associated with two types of filters ...
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Consumer advocacy group Center for Science in the Public Interest has filed a federal lawsuit over artificial sweetener Splenda Essentials, claiming that Johnson & Johnson subsidiary McNeil Nutritionals is misleading consumers about the product’s supposed health benefits.
In a press release, CSPI says that Splenda Essentials’ marketing is designed to give the false impression that the sweetener confers health benefits, such as helping its users lose weight and avoid disease.
The lawsuit ...
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A unit of Johnson & Johnson has issued a recall for certain lots of bone putty, which is used to stop bone bleeding by creating a physical barrier along the edges of bones damaged by trauma or cut during a surgical procedure.
Reuters reports that Synthes issued the recall on July 5, citing the potential for the putty to catch fire if it came in contact with electrosurgical cautery systems during ...
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A cardiologist who conducted a study of St. Jude Medical defibrillator leads said surgeons should stop implanting them in patients until more research is done about safety concerns surrounding the devices.
The New York Times quotes Dr. Robert G. Hauser of Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis as saying: “There is no need to use this lead until we have more confidence in its performance.”
The devices are wires that connect a patient’s ...
continue reading...According to the New York Times, Johnson & Johnson has pledged to remove a number of potentially harmful chemicals, including formaldehyde, from its line of consumer products by the end of 2015.
Although the company had already pledged to remove certain chemicals from its baby products by 2013, the new announcement extends the program to its adult products. Johnson & Johnson is the first major consumer products company to make such ...
continue reading...Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay about $600,000 to resolve three cases in the first settlements of lawsuits related to the company’s all-metal hip implants, Bloomberg reports.
The report, which cites unnamed sources, says officials with Johnson & Johnson’s DePuy unit recently agreed to settle Nevada residents’ suits over the devices, which were recalled in 2010.
The hip implants in question ...
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