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• J&J settles with lawsuit plaintiffs
  Johnson & Johnson has settled with about 845 plaintiffs who filed suit over allegations that the company didn’t adequately warn them about the risks of tendon damage from an antibiotic called Levaquin. According to Bloomberg, the settlements were disclosed in a filing from Minneapolis, where a...

• J&J bought troubled Norian XR manufacturer to help own reputation
  The Pennsylvania-based company Synthes produced a bone cement called Norian XR, which has been linked to the deaths of five patients who received it for spine surgery. Four high-ranking Synthes executives ended up doing jail time for their role in illegally marketing Norian, despite allegedly being ...

• J&J hopes to overcome troubles from recalls
  Investment Website Seeking Alpha says that healthcare products giant Johnson & Johnson is poised to announce its third-quarter earnings report. The company is hoping to break a streak of revenue declines over the last two quarters, as well as net income declines over the past four quarters. The ...

• Experts warn of hacked medical devices
  Participants in a recent government panel warn that computerized medical devices are increasingly susceptible to hacking, including infections by computer viruses. According to a story in MIT’s Technology Review, the malware infections can clog patient-monitoring equipment and other software syste...

• Pa. state employee tried to warn of kickbacks
  The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that an investigator employed by the state of Pennsylvania twice tried to warn that state employees were getting kick-backs from pharmaceutical companies. Both times, according to the Inquirer, Pennsylvania state government officials dismissed Allen Jones and his in...

• Critics: EU medical device plan falls short
  European Union officials are considering more stringent regulations for medical devices. But according to a report on MedPage Today, some European health advocates complain that the proposed regulations wouldn’t go far enough. The report quotes Andrew Boulton, MD, president of the European Associa...

• Concerns about FDA fast-track process
  A story in The Scientist magazine says some medical professionals are concerned about health risks attendant with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s heavy reliance on the fast-track review process for new medications. The Scientist cites an article in the Journal of the American Medical Assoc...

• Mesh implants prompt class action suit in Australia
  The Australian Broadcasting Corporation reports on a class action lawsuit that Johnson & Johnson faces in Australia over the company’s transvaginal mesh implants. According to the report, the mesh devices have caused “life-changing harm” for a significant number of the women who received t...

• Advice about timing for hip replacement
  In a column in the Sioux City Journal out of Iowa, Dr. Anthony L. Komaroff, M.D., answers a letter-writer’s question about the best timing for hip replacement surgery. The letter-writer, who is 58, asks whether surgery is advisable now or later in life. Komaroff writes that hip replacement surgery...

• EU considering tougher rules for medical devices
  European Union officials are calling for stricter rules governing the safety and monitoring of medical devices, Reuters reports. The proposals come in the wake of a global scandal in which hundreds of thousands of women around the world received breast implants prone to rupture and leaking, made by ...