Lawsuits have been filed against Stryker since 2013 alleging that its line of TMZF hip replacement stems are a danger when combined with metal femoral heads. However, patients who have received this potentially dangerous combination of products are just now being notified. Oddly enough, Stryker is not the one doing […]
Category: Rejuvenate/ABG II
Popular testosterone-replacement drugs have been called into question by a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel, which has voted in favor of restricting their use to men with medically related low testosterone. Currently, the drugs are marketed mainly to men with age-related low testosterone as a relatively quick and painless […]
Howmedica Osteonics Corp. (“Stryker Orthopaedics”), a subsidiary of Stryker Corporation, and Court-appointed committees of attorneys representing Rejuvenate Modular-Neck and ABG II Modular-Neck plaintiffs in New Jersey Multicounty and Federal Multidistrict litigations announced a Settlement Agreement. The lawsuits stem from two hip implants that Stryker recalled due to corrosion and other […]
We’ve filed another 65 cases this week in the rapidly growing Stryker Rejuvenate litigation centered in New Jersey state court. Our clients have suffered terrible injuries caused by Stryker’s negligence in how they designed their Rejuvenate and ABG II hip implants. All of them have been forced to undergo painful revision […]
The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) recently published an “information statement” for patients who have been affected by the recent metal-on-metal (MoM) hip disaster. The statement is not a rigorous academic analysis of the current situation with MoM hips, but it does provide a fantastic resource for patients who […]
Please read our most recent blog at our sister site, StrykerImplantRecall.com. We’ve filed 71 cases in one week, and we’re making some serious headway on the Stryker Rejuvenate litigation.
Two years ago, the Food and Drug Association (FDA) was still uncertain about how to address growing concerns over the effects of metal-on-metal (MoM) hip implants. So, on June 27, 2012, the FDA’s Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Devices Panel convened an Advisory Committee in order to hear experts and the public […]
Two separate medical cases, published in leading medical journals the same week, highlight mysterious symptoms that were eventually attributed to metal poisoning from a metal-on-metal (MoM) hip prosthesis. A paper published February 8, in the British medical journal, The Lancet, described a German patient’s quest for an accurate diagnosis. His […]
It is no surprise that the government of the United Kingdom has taken a move to ban metal hips made by leading medical device manufacturers. The government funds surgeries at its National Health Service Hospitals (NHS) and was tired of the high failure rates and costs associated with early revision […]
Many of our clients who have hip prosthesis wonder if they should have an image taken even though they are not experiencing any pain. A new study suggests that may not be a bad idea. Published in the May issue of The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, researchers find […]
