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• Another report warns about metal-on-metal hip implants
  A study published March 13 in The Lancet, one of the world’s most respected medical journals, calls on doctors to stop using metal-on-metal hip replacement devices because of concerns about high early failure rates and potentially toxic metal debris leaching off and getting into patients’ bloods...

• Government wants higher sanctions against Johnson & Johnson
  The U.S. government is demanding that Johnson & Johnson add another $800 million to an initial proposal to settle a federal civil investigation into marketing of the anti-psychotic drug Risperdal, Bloomberg reports. According to Bloomberg, the Justice Department is demanding that the company pay...

• Woman immobile, unable to work after hip implant
  The Minnesota/St. Paul Star Tribune ran a story on March 12 featuring a woman whose DePuy metal-on-metal replacement hip failed prematurely, leaving her unable to work or walk. For a time, her kidneys and liver failed. She is also in pain. She blames it all on the artificial hip, the Star Tribune re...

• Joint replacement up, despite problems
  A recent report in the Boston Globe takes note of a growing trend that involves younger people requesting joint replacement surgery. More people in the demographic that doctors have dubbed “young actives” – those in the 45-to-64 age group – are getting the surgery not for basic mobility, but...

• Recalls a factor in CEO’s departure
  An Associated Press story about the imminent retirement of longtime Johnson & Johnson CEO Bill Weldon mentions his company’s succession of product recalls over the last two years. Weldon became the company’s CEO in 2002. According to the story, there were more than two dozen recalls of nonpr...

• 50,000 U.K. patients need yearly testing from hip implant
  About 50,000 hip replacement patients in England and Wales will require annual medical tests to ensure that their metal-on-metal hip implants aren’t causing them potentially crippling complications, British newspaper The Independent reports. That reflects the number of patients with large hip impl...

• British surgeons: Ban metal-on-metal hip joints
  The British Hip Society, consisting of surgeons and scientists who work with the hip joint, has issued a recommendation that the use of metal-on-metal hip implants be discontinued because of their high early failure rate. The Daily Telegraph quotes Joe Dias, president of the British Orthopaedic Asso...

• Frequent, long-term monitoring recommended for hip implants
  According to an article in the New York Times, British health regulators are recommending that patients who received a certain type of metal-on-metal hip implant get annual examinations for as long as they have the devices, because of concerns that the implants will shed pieces of metallic debris as...

• Members of Congress: Close FDA loophole
  Four Democratic U.S. Representatives have introduced legislation designed to close a major loophole in the process by which the federal Food and Drug Administration approves medical devices. The legislation’s sponsors specifically cite vaginal mesh implants and metal-on-metal hip implants as dange...

• Unsafe Artificial Hip Marketed after FDA Rejection
  The New York Times has reported that Johnson & Johnson marketed an artificial hip overseas after the federal Food and Drug Administration rejected its sale in the United States based on a review of company safety studies. In addition, the company continued to sell a related model of artificial h...