Medical Devices & Implants

• BMJ article reveals unsafe history of metal-on-metal hip implants

  Michael Phelan | February 29, 2012 9:21 AM | 0 CommentsRichmond, VA

  A recent British Medical Journal/BBC Newsnight investigtion published at BMJ2012,344:e1410doi: 10.1136/bmj.e1410 (2/28/12) and entitled, How safe are metal-on-metal hip implants?, reveals the...

• DePuy Hip Implant Claims: Know Your Rights re: Paying Back Health Insurers

  Michael Phelan | December 28, 2011 11:17 AM | 0 CommentsRichmond, VA

  Medical and legal experts estimate that the thousands of failed metal-on-metal artificial hip implants may cost taxpayers, insurers, employers and others billions of dollars in coming years,...

• British Joint Registry: all metal hip replacements more likely to fail

  Michael Phelan | September 19, 2011 9:55 AM | 0 CommentsRichmond, VA

  According to a new report from the National Joint Registry of England and Wales, people who get metal hip replacements are more likely to need another surgery within seven years to replace the...

• FDA May Classify Surgical Mesh Devices as High Risk

  Michael Phelan | September 01, 2011 9:35 AM | 0 CommentsRichmond, VA

  Transvaginally implanted devices used in surgeries to address prolapsed organs and incontinence fail to lead to better outcomes than non-mesh repair and should be reclassified as posing a high risk...

• DePuy Hip Implant Problems Expand for Johnson & Johnson

  Michael Phelan | March 29, 2011 11:32 AM | 0 CommentsRichmond, VA

  DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc., a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, announced earlier this month that its president, David Floyd, is stepping down at the end of the month. This announcement came as the...

• Update on DePuy Hip Implant Litigation

  Michael Phelan | November 21, 2010 12:57 PM | 2 CommentsRichmond, VA

  The Judicial Panel on Multi-District Litigation (JPMDL) convened on November 18th in Durham, NC. One of the matters on the docket was the Johnson & Johnson® DePuy hip implant litigation. The...

• DePuy Hip Implant Recall: Don't Trust DePuy!

  Michael Phelan | September 24, 2010 11:31 AM | 0 CommentsRichmond, VA

  DePuy Orthopaedics, a division of Johnson & Johnson, has a big problem on its hands. The National Hip Registry data shows that within five years of receving either a DePuy ASR™ Hip...

• Continuous Infusion Pain Pumps Causing Cartilage Death

  Michael Phelan | July 21, 2009 3:09 PM | 0 CommentsRichmond, VA

  Studies show a strong association between the intra-articular (inside the joint space) use of high volume pain pumps following arthroscopic shoulder surgery and an otherwise unexplainable loss of...

• Medtronic Reveals Massive Payments to Doctor Accused of Falsifying Medical Research

  Michael Phelan | June 18, 2009 4:02 PM | 0 CommentsRichmond, VA

  A former military surgeon accused by the Army of falsifying a medical journal study involving one of Medtronic's products received approximately $800,000.00 from Medtronic between 2001 and 2009,...

• "All-Hands Meeting" Called At FDA To Discuss Lax Medical Device Oversight

  Michael Phelan | April 28, 2009 11:20 AM | 0 CommentsRichmond, VA

  Nine scientists signed letters to President Obama charging that Food and Drug Administration officials had acted illegally and that patients were routinely put at risk by unsafe medical devices...