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• J&J a “market leader” for bad PR
  A piece in The Economist ironically describes Johnson & Johnson as the “market leader” for publicity problems, based on the company’s disastrous series of product recalls in recent years. The piece prominently mentions Johnson & Johnson’s all-metal hip implants made by subsidiary DeP...

• Surgeon testifies on hip implant injuries
  An orthopedic surgeon testifying at a trial over Johnson & Johnson’s ASR hip implants described tissue colored black with metal debris around the hip joint as the “signature injury” of the devices. According to a story in the Newark Star Ledger, Dr. Craig Swenson of La Jolla, Calif., refer...

• J&J earnings higher than expected for 4th quarter
  Johnson & Johnson’s earnings for the fourth quarter were better than expected, despite $800 million in expenses related to the company’s recall of its all-metal hip implant. According to a story in Reuters, the company earned $1.19 per share, excluding one-time items, in the fourth quarter. ...

• Internal J&J report: Nearly half of hip implants failed
  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 re...

• Documents show J&J knew hip implant had high failure rate
  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 showin...

• FDA issues warning letter about heart device
  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has sent a warning letter to medical device manufacturer St. Jude Medical, warning of problems with manufacturing and quality control at the California plant where the company makes implantable heart defibrillators. A story in the New York Times notes that the S...

• FDA calls for limits on selling all-metal hips
  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is proposing a policy that could prevent manufacturers from selling dangerous metal-on-metal hip implants, according to a story in the New York Times. The story says all-metal hips – which have both a ball and a socket coated with a combination of cobalt and c...

• FDA warns against all-metal implants
  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says metal-on-metal hip implants, which feature both a ball and a socket coated in a mixture of cobalt and chromium, can cause soft-tissue damage. According to a Reuters story, the agency warns that the implant defects can make further surgery necessary. The pro...

• Congressional investigators accuse J&J of misconduct
  A CNN story concerns a congressional investigation into pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson, based on reports that the company tried to mislead the public about defective products. Specifically, the story focuses on an alleged “phantom recall” of painkiller Motrin. According to the story,...

• Woman’s case a bellwether for faulty hip implants
  The Rochester Business Journal out of New York says an area woman’s lawsuit is one of two bellwether cases that will affect the outcome of thousands of claims concerning DePuy Orthopaedics hip implants. Local businesswoman Ann McCracken, 57, had an all-metal hip joint implanted in 2009. According ...