Cook Medical is once again shipping the Zilver PTX Drug-Eluting Peripheral Stent to doctors and hospitals in Europe, Japan and in the U.S. following a global recall due to at least one fatality. The stent was voluntarily recalled after the company received 13 complaints of a faulty delivery system. Specifically, […]
The national litigation efforts in state and federal court involving Wright Medical’s defective metal-on-metal hip implant products ( Conserve®,Dynasty®, Profemur® and the Lineage®) have been proceeding well over the past few months with additional progress expected through the end of 2013. The coordinated litigation efforts in both the federal Multi-District Litigation (MDL) […]
The entire trial took just 11 days. Donna Cisson sued C.R. Bard Co. of New Jersey, maker of the Avaulta Plus transvaginal mesh implanted in her in 2009 to treat pelvic organ prolapse. Last week, the jury awarded the 55-year-old Cisson $250,000 in compensatory damages and $1.75 million in punitive […]
With more than 27,000 transvaginal mesh cases consolidated in one federal court in West Virginia, the first bellwether case is now in its second week. Donna Cisson, 55 was implanted with a Bard Avaulta Plus Posterior BioSynthetic Support System in May 2009. She has undergone several removal operations after pain […]
What happens when low quality diabetes test strips enter the market? They give inaccurate readings which can prove fatal to a diabetic who must monitor the amount of sugar in his blood and deliver a dose of insulin according to the reading. Writing in Huffington Post, diabetes advocate Riva Greenberg […]
Ambien is an over-the-counter drug used to help people get to sleep and stay asleep. Chronic sleep disorders, also known as insomnia, are estimated to affect about 50 to 70 million Americans. But the active ingredient in many of these insomnia medications, zolpidem tartrate, is also landing many users in […]
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that the enthusiasm over the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine appears to be waning. While 53 percent of 13-to-17-year-old girls received the vaccine in 2011, only 33 percent of young women received the three doses in the series by 2012. The […]
The goal of this published study was to identify common medical practices that offer no benefit. Doctors are often convinced by a drug and/or medical device representative that the latest and greatest drug or medical procedures will make them a better doctor. An analysis of 363 studies finds that not […]
Johnson & Johnson is considered a great stock and a buy for most investors despite the fact that the company cannot seem to shake its problem-plagued public relations. The latest news – the healthcare giant will pay $22.9 million to cover quality control failures. You’ll recall its McNeil Consumer Healthcare […]
Researchers from the British Medical Journal have dug into the data previously withheld on Byetta and Januvia, drugs, known as incretin mimetics, and found the diabetes drugs could be riskier than previously thought. Both drugs are used to treat type 2 diabetes. Byetta (exenatide) is made by Bristol-Myers Squibb and […]
