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You may recall we reported on June 4 that Ethicon, a division of Johnson & Johnson (J&J), announced it was removing four synthetic vaginal meshes from the market – all fall under the Gynecare division – the TVT Secur, Prosima, Prolift and the Prolift+M. An Ethicon spokesman did not call […]

The New England Journal of Medicine published a study on June 20 by John Wei, MD, a researcher and professor of urology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. “What we found is that by putting in a sling, the risk of having leakage is halved,” he said in a […]

If a medical device such as a metal-on-metal (MoM) hip or synthetic vaginal mesh go bad in a patient, the current system has no way of identifying and tracking that medical device. There is no national registry in the U.S. as there is in Britain and Australia, so the recipient of the device gone […]

It is estimated that about 500,000 patients have received metal-on-metal hips, though firm numbers are hard to come by because the U.S. does not track medical device implants. In fact, that mystery is just one of many that surfaced on June 27 and 28, when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) convened […]

(It Doesn’t Really Matter As Long As Patients and Surgeons Stop Buying the Defective Implants!) While it would certainly be nice to have a government that moved swiftly to recall defective drugs and medical devices from the market, we do not live in that world – at least in the […]

Two new lawsuits were filed this week against Bayer Corporation by Cal Warriner and Brenda Fulmer on behalf of clients from Oregon. The first lawsuit involves a 37 year old single woman employed in the accounting industry from Portland, Oregon. She ingested both Yaz and Gianvi for less than a year […]

  Another DePuy ASR hip implant lawsuit was filed this week against DePuy Orthopaedics and its parent company, Johnson & Johnson.  This lawsuit was filed on behalf of a 61 year old woman who lives on a farm near Gainesville, Florida.  She had the misfortune of being implanted with not […]

The Searcy Denney Mass Tort Unit filed yet another individual lawsuit this week on behalf of a Florida DePuy ASR hip implant victim. This claim was filed on behalf of a Sebring resident who was implanted with bilateral recalled DePuy ASR implants in 2007 at Highlands Regional Medical Center. This plaintiff […]

With all of the controversy, bad outcomes, and thousands of personal injury lawsuits concerning vaginal mesh, this medical doctor has a novel approach. Dr. John Wei of the University of Michigan suggests using a mid-urethral sling to prevent incontinence, even when the woman is not incontinent! Published June 20, 2012 […]

Four mesh products have been recalled that belong to the Gynecare family of polypropylene mesh under the Ethicon division of Johnson & Johnson. In a June 4th letter Ethicon advised the court it was suspending the sale of synthetic vaginal meshes and on page 2 there is a curious note […]