A new study reports on the likelihood of needing a second surgery after a hip replacement procedure for osteoarthritis, and the news is not good for men and younger seniors. Researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston analyzed data from 51,000 Medicare patients who received total hip replacements (THR) […]

There are about 70 notifying bodies scattered around Europe that are in charge of deciding whether or not a medical device can be sold in that respective country. It is their alternative to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which is considered more rigorous in ensuring patient safety. Or […]

The Mass Tort Unit of Searcy Denney has filed two more individual lawsuits this week against DePuy, a division of Johnson & Johnson, over the medical device manufacturer’s recalled DePuy ASR hip implants. The firm represents several dozen plaintiffs from Florida as well as other parts of the country who […]

A follow-up of patients who received hip replacement surgery by the National Joint Registry of England and Wales has researchers issuing an ominous warning – women are strongly urged to avoid the hip replacement procedure known as “resurfacing,” according to a published report in the British medical journal, The Lancet. […]

On March 10, 2010, the Stryker Orthopaedics Division announced the release of a new hip replacement, the ADM X3 Mobile Bearing Acetabular System.  Calling it the “next-generation of technology” in hip replacements, the company announced that Hall of Famer, Johnny Bench, would become the first patient in the world to […]

  [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 […]

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 […]

When participants left a two-day public hearing convened by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to discuss metal-on-metal hips (MoM) there were few answers and a lot of questions. The goal of the 18-member FDA advisory panel made up of surgeons, industry reps, and consumer advocates was to try and come […]

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 […]