The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is proposing a policy that could prevent manufacturers from selling dangerous metal-on-metal hip implants, according to a story in the New York Times.
The story says all-metal hips – which have both a ball and a socket coated with a combination of cobalt and chromium – have been plagued by high early failure rates.
Traditional hip ...
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Your doctor will likely ask you a series of questions if you’re seeking treatment for urinary incontinence. Anticipating those questions and having answers for them may allow more time for the points you want to discuss further, the Mayo Clinic advises.
Although urinary incontinence can be a troubling condition, it is treatable. But some treatments can cause problems as well.
Transvaginal mesh implants, marketed as a treatment for urinary incontinence and pelvic ...
continue reading...During a trial over vaginal mesh implants, a Johnson & Johnson official testified that the company was well aware the medical devices were dangerous before putting them on the market in 2005.
In the first of 1,800 such lawsuits to go to trial, a 47-year-old South Dakota woman named Linda Gross is suing over allegations that the health care giant failed to adequately test the devices or warn patients of their ...
continue reading...Opening arguments took place in the court case involving a woman who needed 18 operations to repair damage from a transvaginal mesh implant.
Her lawyer alleged that manufacturer Johnson & Johnson sold the device, which is supposed to shore up weakened pelvic muscles, after testing it inadequately and failing to warn of all the risks.
A Bloomberg story quotes him as saying: “They knew every single catastrophe before ...
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A CNN story concerns a congressional investigation into pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson, based on reports that the company tried to mislead the public about defective products.
Specifically, the story focuses on an alleged “phantom recall” of painkiller Motrin. According to the story, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration eventually initiated a nationwide recall of more than 88,000 Motrin tablets because of a problem with the way the drug dissolved.
But the ...
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The Rochester Business Journal out of New York says an area woman’s lawsuit is one of two bellwether cases that will affect the outcome of thousands of claims concerning DePuy Orthopaedics hip implants.
Local businesswoman Ann McCracken, 57, had an all-metal hip joint implanted in 2009. According to the story, it was “marketed as particularly appropriate for younger, more active candidates.”
DePuy, a division of Johnson & Johnson, recalled the implants in ...
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