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BMJ on Hip Implants – No Evidence of Safety
The British Medical Journal (BMJ) recently published an article that shows the glaring oversight of regulators to ensure patient safety from defective medical devices in the European Union. Its findings echo what has happened in the U.S. and unfortunately, the reasons are the same. The research from the University of Oxford, “Primary hip replacement prostheses…
NICE Standards, Orthopedic Device Manufacturers
As technology advances our standards for efficiency, performance and safety are increased. These improvements are sometimes brought about by the natural evolution of the particular industry itself, the development of industry standards or the imputation of government requirements. Often, though, the change is influenced through lawsuits filed against manufacturers; sadly only after people are injured….
Stryker Suits Consolidated in Minnesota
The purpose of multidistrict litigation is to consolidate complex legal cases that share a similar legal issues and common questions of fact. The product liability lawsuits filed naming Stryker over its Rejuvenate hip and the ABG II Hip Stem have been consolidated in federal court in Minnesota. The United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation…
Stryker Hip Implant — Adverse Tissue Reaction at the Femoral Neck-Body Junction
A recent article published in The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery clearly shows that the Stryker Rejuvenate modular hip implant may be as capable of corroding as its metal-on-metal cousins. This publication is significant because it shows metal-on-metal (MoM) hips are not the only problem. Adverse events were reported with the components in this…
Johnson & Johnson Metal Hip Cases Pinnacle, DePuy Moving Forward
Johnson & Johnson can not dodge an $8.3 million jury award by having a new metal-on-metal hip trial. J&J”s DePuy Orthopaedics division petitioned a California court to have a new trial to offset a March jury award to the metal hip injured patient. Judge J. Stephen Czuleger rejected that motion letting stand the jury ruling…
DePuy Wants to Erase Metal Hip Jury Verdict
Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has requested that an $8.3 million judgment against the company over its DePuy metal-on-metal (MoM) hip implant be put on hold. The damaging jury award was rendered in March against J&J’s DePuy Orthopedics division on behalf of plaintiff, Loren Kransky. His metal hip shed cobalt and chromium debris into his implant…
Stryker Warned About Quality and Marketing Compliance problems
Orthopedic medical device maker Stryker Corp. has received a warning letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) following a quality control inspection at its Michigan facility in November. The facility is in Portage, Michigan and is home to Stryker Corp’s instruments division, though there are no details about what was found. The letter…
FDA Begins Guarding the Gate — Increase in Medical Device Monitoring
The medical device division of the FDA is acting more like a watchdog than a lapdog according to a new analysis. The Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) reportedly issued one-third more warning letters in 2011 for dangerous devices than it did in 2008. Since 2007 there has been a 250 percent increase in…
Stryker Rejuvenate or ABG II failure – The Revision Surgery Dilemma
Now that many victims in whom Stryker’s Rejuvenate or ABG II hip implants were placed have been notified the devices have been recalled they face the very difficult decision about what to do. They now know a defective and recalled medical device is inside them. Some have symptoms, some don’t. Many have been to their…
New Jersey Supreme Court Consolidates All Stryker Rejuvenate Cases to Bergen County, New Jersey
On January 24, 2013 the New Jersey Supreme Court issued an order establishing Multi-County Jurisdiction for all Stryker Rejuvenate and ABG II implant cases in Bergen County, New Jersey. Both of these Stryker hip implant systems were voluntarily recalled in July 2012. In August 2012, Searcy Denney filed the first Rejuvenate case in the country…
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