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 ...
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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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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 implants for the EU.
Posing as representatives of a fictitious Chinese company, the reporters presented plans for an all-metal artificial hip joint. Those plans were overtly ...
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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 agencies for an all-metal artificial hip implant similar to a model that’s already been recalled over safety concerns. According to the Telegraph, EU regulatory agencies were prepared to approve ...
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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 were five times more likely to suffer an ischemic stroke, which is caused by an obstruction such as blood clots blocking ...
continue reading...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 federal judge is overseeing about 1,900 Levaquin lawsuits. The filing didn’t say how much the company will pay.
Overall, Johnson & Johnson faces more than 3,400 ...
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