[two_third_last]The more we uncover cases such as this one, the angrier we get. Back in 1992, twenty years ago, an article in The Journal of Arthroplasty, showed that a 76-year-old man implanted with a hip prosthesis made of metals and plastic stimulated an adverse reaction that required the hip to […]
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This study comes from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and was reported in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery in July 1991. Researchers studied nine uncemented hip prostheses that had been revised (removed). In four of the nine hips, researchers found tissue discoloration and corrosion at the head-neck junction. […]
If you were attending the recent FDA gathering of expert scientists, orthopaedic device developers, and surgeons who implant total hip replacements (THR), you would leave believing that the issue of early failures and metal toxicity from artificial hips was a new development. But a closer look at science from the […]
Johnson & Johnson is the world’s largest consumer health company with perhaps the world’s largest public relations problem. Shareholders would like to know what’s gone wrong with the company and they’ve filed a corruption lawsuit to find out. Ten company board members and several executives have been named including new […]
Coloplast Corp. has asked the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (“JPML”) to consolidate and transfer all federal cases involving its pelvic mesh device to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia for coordinated pretrial proceeding (known as In re Coloplast Corp’s Pelvic Support System Product Liability […]
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 […]
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 […]