Posts Tagged 'metal-on-metal'

Government wants higher sanctions against Johnson & Johnson

Posted March 13, 2012 in Health | Product Liability | Product News and Recalls

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 about $1.8 billion to resolve the civil claims by the U.S. and some states.

The demand came after the Justice Department and states decided a $1 billion settlement that had been negotiated by the U.S. Attorney’s office in ...

Categories: Health, Product Liability, Product News and Recalls

Tags: debris, DePuy, early failure, hip implants, johnson and johnson, lawsuits, metal-on-metal, risperdal

Woman immobile, unable to work after hip implant

Posted March 12, 2012 in Health | Product Liability | Product News and Recalls

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 reports.

The report says that Wagner-Morley and thousands more like her throughout the United States have led medical professionals to question the idea of “metal-on-metal” devices, in which both ...

Categories: Health, Product Liability, Product News and Recalls

Tags: debris, DePuy, early failure, hip implants, lawsuits, metal-on-metal

Joint replacement up, despite problems

Posted March 9, 2012 in Health | Product Liability | Product News and Recalls

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 to maintain their athletic lifestyles.

The report notes that the number of joint replacements has risen steadily over the last two decades, despite complaints about problems with the procedures and the need for ...

Categories: Health, Product Liability, Product News and Recalls

Tags: debris, DePuy, hip impants, lawsuits, metal-on-metal

Recalls a factor in CEO’s departure

Posted March 8, 2012 in Health | Legal Issues | Product Liability | Product News and Recalls

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 nonprescription drugs and at least two for prescription drugs since 2009.

There were also recalls of about 25 medical devices and consumer products. Federal regulators have had three of the company’s factories under scrutiny, and shut ...

Categories: Health, Legal Issues, Product Liability, Product News and Recalls

Tags: Bill Weldon, debris, DePuy, hip impants, Johnson & Johnson, lawsuits, metal-on-metal

50,000 U.K. patients need yearly testing from hip implant

Posted March 8, 2012 in Legal Issues | Product Liability | Product News and Recalls

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 implants who will need annual blood tests to check their metal ion levels, including about 10,000 people with implants manufactured by DePuy, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson.

The risk with the metal-on-metal implants – which use a metal coating for ...

Categories: Legal Issues, Product Liability, Product News and Recalls

Tags: BMJ, British Hip Society, debris, DePuy, hip impants, lawsuits, metal ions, metal-on-metal, Recall

British surgeons: Ban metal-on-metal hip joints

Posted March 7, 2012 in Drug and Medical Device Lawsuits | Health | Product Liability | Product News and Recalls

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 Association, as saying that about 5.5 percent of the large metal-on-metal implants – in which the ball and the socket are both coated with metal — needed to be replaced because of wear-and-tear within five ...

Categories: Drug and Medical Device Lawsuits, Health, Product Liability, Product News and Recalls

Tags: British Hip Society, debris, DePuy, hip impants, lawsuits, metal-on-metal

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Posts Tagged 'metal-on-metal'

Government wants higher sanctions against Johnson & Johnson

Woman immobile, unable to work after hip implant

Joint replacement up, despite problems

Recalls a factor in CEO’s departure

50,000 U.K. patients need yearly testing from hip implant

British surgeons: Ban metal-on-metal hip joints

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