Defective Medical Devices

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wants to remind the public what a good job it’s been doing in monitoring drugs both before and after they are marketed. In a report issued over the weekend, April 21, “Advances in FDA’s Safety Program for Marketed Drugs,” the agency pats itself […]

This is the typical refrain from so many of our clients who were implanted with defective metal-on-metal hip implants made by orthopedic giants like DePuy, Stryker, Wright Medical, and Zimmer. The irony is that those who utter those words are actually very close to the emerging stereotype for these clients. […]

We hear from them every day  – consumers who trust and believe their doctor  only to find out things like what Consumer Reports (CR) investigates in its May issue. Surprisingly, the majority of medical devices never have to pass through any sort of safety and efficacy standard with the Food […]

Better late than never? The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will hold a gathering of scientific and clinical experts to discuss whether metal-on-metal (MoM) artificial hip systems should undergo more rigorous scientific scrutiny before they are implanted in U.S. patients, which sounds infinitely reasonable. On Thursday, March 29, the […]

Johnson & Johnson (J&J) rarely responds to negative news, which it’s been experiencing a lot of lately, usually relying on the news cycles to wash away unfavorable reports. But in an unusual move, a J&J spokesman recently did defend the company from the latest blow – that the health care […]

Johnson & Johnson knew about at least some of the serious problems related to their DePuy ASR hip implant, known as metal-on-metal (MOM) implants,  before they ever started alerting consumers and it appears they may have known about it even before they asked the FDA to approve the device through […]

The Mass Tort Unit at Searcy Denney recently filed an individual lawsuit against Davol, Inc., a division of C.R. Bard. in Broward County on behalf of a Margate, Florida resident.  This South Florida woman underwent a hernia repair surgery in November of 2005 and was implanted with a Composix Kugel […]

Building the “better mouse trap” sometimes means producing a product that simply does not work the way it is designed to work. It is a process, sometimes, of trial and error. If someone (other than the mouse) is seriously injured by that product, it is called negligence. Building the “better […]

Women who are trying to make decisions about a safe and effective form of birth control are having a hard time these days. On the heels of reports that Yaz, Bayer’s number one selling oral birth control pill was linked to abnormally high incidence of blood clotting disorders, it is […]

Bisphosphonates are widely prescribed medications for the treatment and/or prevention of osteoporosis.  The first bisphosphonate (Fosamax, also known as alendronate) for the prevention and/or treatment of osteoporosis was approved for the U.S. market in 1995.  Since that time, four bisphosphonate molecular entities (alendronate sodium, risedronate sodium, ibandronate sodium, and zoledronic […]