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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 […]

On July 4, 2012, Stryker posted on its website a national recall of its Rejuvenate and ADM hip implant systems. It’s obvious that Stryker has received far too many reports of shockingly premature failures of its hip implant. The Rejuvenate has only been on the market since 2009 so enough […]

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 […]

Documents recently posted to the FDA’s website say pharmaceutical company, Amylin, has not been completely forthcoming about its diabetes drug, Byetta, and related drug Bydureon, concerning their potential for cardiovascular complications. The active ingredient is the same in the two drugs which are both used to treat type 2 diabetes. However, Bydureon […]

(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 […]

The Searcy Denney Mass Tort Unit would like to thank our client, Howard Sadwin of Sarasota, Florida, for his poignant statements today before the Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Devices Panel of the Medical Devices Advisory Committee for the Food and Drug Administration. The hearings were convened in Gaithersburg, Maryland.  In addition […]

  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 […]

As a Stryker hip implant attorney, I have written previously about our experience with clients who had Stryker hip replacement problems. Most of these clients tell us about conversations with their doctors before surgery in which they were told the Rejuvenate hip was better for them due to their young […]

According to an analysis by the Institute for Safe Medication Practices, Pradaxa drug (Dabigatran) topped the list of direct reports to the FDA for serious adverse drug events in 2011.  Pradaxa took the lead with 817 direct reports, followed by Coumadin (Warfarin) with 490 direct reports, Levaquin (Levofloxacin) with 393, […]