Lawyers ask FDA to investigate DePuy after alleged wrongdoing surfaces in ASR...
Lawyers representing patients allegedly harmed by metal-on-metal hip implants have called upon the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to investigate allegations of wrongdoing in DePuy Orthopedics,...
View ArticleCyclist files lawsuit against metal hip implant manufacturer
Mark Stephan was riding his bike with friends when he crashed and fractured two vertebrae. He was told he might never walk again. Yet, four years and a hip replacement later, Stephan defied the odds...
View ArticleResearchers: More studies needed to determine long-term cancer risk with...
Researchers are recommending long-term studies be done on patients with metal-on-metal hip replacement systems to determine whether corroding implants cause cancer. The recommendation was made...
View ArticleDePuy settles ASR metal hip complaint before trial start
Johnson & Johnson has settled a personal-injury lawsuit that accused its DuPuy Orthopaedics unit of manufacturing defective metal-on-metal hip replacement devices. The lawsuit had been selected as...
View ArticleJohnson and Johnson to pay $2.5 billion to resolve thousands of ASR metal hip...
Johnson & Johnson will pay more than $2.5 billion to resolve more than 7,500 lawsuits involving defective ASR metal-on-metal hip implants made by its subsidiary DePuy Othopaedics. DePuy issued a...
View Article3 medical devices that can harm you
Medical devices are vitally important to the industry. They vary in complexity and application, from tongue depressors and disposable gloves to implants and prostheses. Because they are used to...
View ArticleBiomet to pay $56 million to settle metal-on-metal hip implant lawsuits
Medical device company Biomet Inc. has agreed to pay at least $56 million to settle multidistrict litigation (MDL) in Indiana federal court claiming its metal-on-metal hip replacement devices were...
View ArticleConsumer Reports group pushes for warranties on artificial hips
Nearly a half-million Americans each year undergo hip replacement surgery, an invasive operation that requires weeks of rehabilitation. Typical hip implants can last 20 years or more before being...
View ArticleSurgeon: Metal hip implant failures led to ‘severe patient wreckage’
“I’d seen patients coming into the clinic complaining of groin pain. I saw it once and then again and then again and again,” Surgeon Antoni Nargol told Four Corners, an investigative news program for...
View ArticleJohnson and Johnson considers $3 billion settlement for defective metal hip...
Johnson & Johnson is considering shelling out more than $3 billion to settle lawsuits related to a faulty all-metal hip replacement system. The payout is about 50 percent higher than the company...
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