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• Federal agency gives warning on metal hips
  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration Website cautions that while all artificial hip replacement systems carry risks that the devices will break down or wear out, those risks are particularly high with “metal-on-metal” implants. A metal-on-metal implant features both a ball and a cup coated with...

• Questions and answers about hip replacement
  A column in the Chicago Tribune from the Mayo Clinic answers a reader’s questions about hip replacement surgery. The questions are from a hip arthritis patient who’s 53 and in excellent health, wondering if a “direct anterior approach” would work best. According to the column: “Hip replace...

• J&J CEO taking over as chairman
  Johnson & Johnson CEO Alex Gorsky has been elected chairman of the board for the company, Bloomberg reports. He will replace Bill Weldon, who stepped down as CEO in April and is retiring next year. Weldon had been in charge during some prominent missteps for the company, including a string of re...

• UK lawmaker wants reforms after artificial hip scandal
  A British lawmaker is calling for a “sweeping overhaul” of the system by which the European Union approves medical devices, after an undercover investigation found regulators were prepared to license a dangerous hip implant. According to UK newspaper The Daily Telegraph, Miller is chairman of a ...

• Man sues maker of all-metal hip
  A story in the Greenville News out of South Carolina concerns a local man who filed a lawsuit against the manufacturer of his artificial hip. The report says Tony R. Bishop had the all-metal M2a Magnum Hip System, manufactured by Indiana-based Biomet, implanted in 2006 after he fell off a horse. Bis...

• Medical device makers partner with FDA
  A story in the Star Tribune out of Minnesota concerns a partnership between medical device manufacturers and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, designed to help industries get through the regulatory approval process for new devices. The Medical Device Innovation Consortium will serve as a public...

• Firm advertised willingness to approve dangerous implant
  Reporters with the U.K. newspaper The Daily Telegraph and the British Medical Journal visited a Slovakian firm as part of an undercover investigation into the European Union’s approval process for medical devices. The firm, EVPU, is one of the private companies authorized to license medical implan...

• EU agencies would have approved ‘toxic’ hip implant
  A joint investigation by the Telegraph, a U.K. newspaper, and the British Medical Journal exposed flaws in the European Union’s regulatory approval process for medical devices. The two publications essentially set up a sting operation by submitting approval applications to European regulatory agen...

• Study show link between stroke, hip replacement
  A study of patients in Denmark found that those who underwent total hip replacement surgery have a higher risk of stroke in the weeks following the operation, according to a story on MedPage Today. Drawing on a sample of 67,000 patients who underwent total hip replacement, the researchers found they...

• Carrie R. Capouellez
  (215) 952-6910 (215) 952-6914 BiographyContactAttorney Ms. Capouellez has been with Lopez McHugh, LLP, since the firm was founded in 2007 and carries on the tradition of success and high standards set by the founding partners Ramon Lopez and James McHugh, Jr., in the representation of i...