Johnson & Johnson is set to face the first of 1,800 cases to go to trial over the company’s vaginal mesh implants, Bloomberg reports.
A lawsuit by Linda Gross, 47, will be heard in Superior Court in Atlantic City, N.J. At issue is whether Johnson & Johnson’s Ethicon unit adequately warned of the risks of the device.
But Bloomberg notes that several manufacturers are facing lawsuits by women who claim the devices, ...
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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 replacement surgery involves removing part of the hip joint and replacing it with an artificial joint that has a ball component made of metal or ceramic ...
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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 recalls.
An all-metal artificial hip manufactured by Johnson & Johnson subsidiary DePuy Orthopaedics was recalled in 2010 after a number of ...
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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 parliamentary select committee looking into problems with regulation of medical devices in Britain. He’s quoted ...
continue reading...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.
Bishop eventually had it removed last month in a four-hour surgery, after “it caused bone and tissue destruction and toxic levels ...
continue reading...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-private partnership between the manufacturers and the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health. Organizers intend to include leaders of industry, academia and government agencies.
The story ...
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