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• Consumer Reports: Medical device approval process deeply flawed
  A new issue of Consumer Reports includes an investigation into the process by which the federal Food and Drug Administration reviews medical implants for approval. The report concludes that most medical devices aren’t tested before being implanted in patients’ bodies. The situation amounts to wh...

• Report questions timing of hip implant recall
  A major Australian newspaper is questioning why the country’s regulatory agency for drugs and medical devices allowed DePuy’s all-metal hip implants to be sold there for years after data showed they had a high early failure rate. The report in the Sydney Morning Herald mentions documents the New...

• New York Times: Company knowingly sold defective implants
  Johnson & Johnson executives decided to phase out a replacement hip joint and sell its remaining inventory to be surgically implanted in patients just weeks after the company got a letter from the Food and Drug Administration about serious safety concerns with the devices. (more…) ...

• Mother who lost job from implant wants reforms
  A mother of three who had to quit her truck-driving job because of debilitating pain from a faulty vaginal mesh implant spoke up on Thursday, calling for federal lawmakers to close the loophole that allowed the implant to go on the market in the first place. “It’s a question of loss,” said Col...

• Columnist: Preemptive implant removal a bad idea
  A medical columnist for the British newspaper Daily Mail writes that patients should not get all-metal hip implants removed simply because they’re worried over recent reports about the devices. Dr. Ellie Cannon acknowledged that patients who received the implants in question are likely to be alarm...

• NPR broadcast examines faulty hip implants
  National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition” on Monday provided an in-depth look at the problems that recipients of DePuy’s all-metal hip implants are dealing with. The company recalled the implants in 2010 because of a high early failure rate. The broadcast actually went into the operating roo...

• Departing Johnson & Johnson CEO Weldon getting $143.5 million
  Departing Johnson & Johnson Chief Executive Officer William C. Weldon, who is leaving after a spate of disastrous recalls, will get $143.5 million in retirement pay, according to Bloomberg. Bloomberg reports that Weldon, 63, will remain chairman. He amassed $95.1 million in deferred and long-ter...

• Women at particular risk from faulty hip implants
  Although metal-on-metal hip implants have high failure rates for both sexes, women in particular have suffered from receiving the faulty devices, according to a report in the Guardian. U.K. joint replacement experts called for the metal-on-metal implants – where both the ball and socket are coated...

• Report accuses maker of recalled artificial hips, J&J, of hypocrisy
  A report by the American Association for Justice accuses the corporation Johnson & Johnson of hypocrisy for lobbying to prevent individual lawsuits against the company, while suing others to further its goals. J&J is a board member of the Institute for Legal Reform, an arm of the U.S. Chambe...

• Consumer group calls for reform of FDA approval process
  The independent nonprofit Consumer Reports has undertaken a national campaign to change the process by which the federal Food and Drug Administration approves medical devices, according to a report in the Chicago Tribune. Consumer Reports says the agency’s approval of metal-on-metal hip implants a...