Virtually all Rejuvenate and ABG II patients have received notice from their doctor that the devices have been recalled. These patients are all now faced with the prospect of a painful and risky revision surgery. Rejuvenate and ABG II victims can basically be placed into three categories. I know. I’ve […]
Johnson & Johnson’s new CEO, Alyx Gorsky, will not be able to avoid having his deposition taken in preparation for the upcoming transvaginal mesh lawsuits pending before a New Jersey Superior Court. The ruling came down July 19, 2012, one day before a landmark ruling in another mesh case in […]
[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text] Thirteen individuals have sued the makers of Nexium and Prevacid in California state court alleging the drug maker failed to adequately warn doctors and consumers that the acid reflux drugs cause bone loss and osteoporosis. Nexium, manufactured by AstraZeneca, and Prevacid, made by Takeda, are associated with […]
A federal judge has scheduled proceedings for the first of two test trials in the Actos litigation. The bellwether trials, as they are known, are set for November 3, 2014, and January 12, 2015 in the multidistrict litigation consolidated in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana. […]
C.R. Bard Inc. must pay a Bakersfield woman $5.5 million in damages in what promises to be the first of thousands of vaginal mesh injury cases to go to trial. Jurors in a Bakersfield, California state court determined July 20th, that the Avaulta Plus Biosynthetic Support System vaginal implant caused […]
[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 […]
A panel of federal judges will meet on Thursday, July 26, to determine whether it will be necessary to create a sixth multidistrict litigation (MDL), expanding the litigation from the current five vaginal mesh MDLs. Four MDLs are consolidated in Charleston, West Virginia in the U.S. District Court for the […]
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 […]
Last month, Searcy Denney filed a lawsuit on behalf of a North Port hip implant and his wife against DePuy Orthopedics and Johnson & Johnson. This Southwest Florida resident was originally implanted with a DePuy ASR metal-on-metal hip implant by Dr. Howard Saslow at Fawcett Memorial Hospital in Port Charlotte, […]
