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 […]
Category: Defective Medical Devices
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 […]
Over the past year, lawyers who represent thousands of women injured by defective transvaginal mesh have faced difficult choices with regard to the proper venue for filing individual lawsuits. These medical devices have been widely used (and perhaps overused) to treat women with stress urinary incontinence (SUI) or pelvic organ […]
Attorney Brenda Fulmer of the Mass Tort Unit at Searcy Denney filed a products liability lawsuit today against the manufacturers of NuvaRing. NuvaRing is a novel medical device that is used for contraceptive. It has become a popular product used by young girls and women due to the convenience of […]
