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All-Metal Hip Implants Prone to Early Failure, Need to be Removed

April 27, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment

Great story by NPR on the continuing problems faced by patients who have received All-Metal Hip Implants. Implants Need To Be Removed Early by Richard Knox EnlargeRichard Knox/NPRYoung-min Kwon of Massachusetts General Hospital holds the metal-alloy ball of Susy Mansfield’s faulty artificial hip joint. The yellowish tissue on top is dead muscle caused by a reaction to the metal debris produced by the defective hip implant. When Susy Mansfield needed a hip replacement in 2009, her orthopedic surgeon chose a relatively new and untested kind of artificial hip made entirely of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles of Interest, Health, Medical Cases Tagged With: All-Metal Hip Implant, Attorney, Denton, DePuy, DePuy Hip Implants, Doctor, Hazard, Injury, liability, Metal Hip, Patient, Personal Injury, Recall, Texas, Voluntary Recall

Hip Implant Complaints Increase, While Dangers Are Reviewed

August 23, 2011 By admin Leave a Comment

By BARRY MEIER and JANET ROBERTS of the New York Times Published: August 22, 2011 The federal government has received a surge in complaints in recent months about failed hip replacements, suggesting that serious problems persist with some types of artificial hips even as researchers scramble to evaluate the health dangers. An analysis of federal data by The New York Times indicates that the Food and Drug Administration has received more than 5,000 reports since January about several widely used devices known as metal-on-metal hips, more than the agency had received about those devices in the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles of Interest, Medical Cases Tagged With: A.S.R., Accident, All-Metal Hip Implant, Articular Surface Replacement, Attorney, Complaints, Denton, DePuy, DePuy Hip Implants, Device, Durom Cup, FDA, Food and Drug Administration, Hip, Hip Replacement, Implant, Injury, Insurance, Johnson & Johnson, Kaiser Permanente, Lawsuit, Lawyers, liability, Medical Device, Medtronic, Metallic Debris, Pain, Patient, Personal Injury, Pinnacle, Recall, Replacement, Texas, tissue damage, Zimmer Holdings

Johnson & Johnson Recalls Hip Implants

March 22, 2011 By admin Leave a Comment

By NATASHA SINGER The New York Times Published: August 26, 2010 More than two years after the Food and Drug Administration began receiving complaints about the failure of a hip replacement implant made by the DePuy Orthopaedics unit of Johnson & Johnson, the company said Thursday that it was recalling two kinds of hip implants. DePuy said that it had made the decision to withdraw the products because many patients required a second hip replacement after the company’s implants had failed. The news compounded problems for Johnson & Johnson, which has recalled a succession of some of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Pharmaceutical Cases, Recalls Tagged With: Accident, ASR implants, ASR XL Acetabular System, Attorney, clinical trials, consumers, Denton, DePuy, DePuy Hip Implants, Doctor, FDA, Food and Drug Administration, Injury, Johnson & Johnson, Knee Replacement, Lawyers, Personal Injury, Physical Injury, Recall, Safety, Texas, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Voluntary Recall

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Articles of Interest

Honda Worldwide Recall of Sedans, Minivans, SUVs

By Deepa Seetharaman and Bernie Woodall of Reuters. Honda Motor Co Ltd plans to recall nearly 2 1/2 million vehicles: small SUVs, cars and minivans worldwide. This includes the popular Accord sedan. … [Read More…]

Tragedy Brought on by Tainted Fruit

By Moni Basu, CNN William Beach was one of those people who fixated on certain foods. He would eat the same thing voraciously for a few days, and then, when he tired of the same tastes, he moved onto … [Read More…]

No Better Care, Thanks to Tort Reform

Published in The Texas Tribune by guest columnist, Charles M. Silver In 2006, Dr. Howard Marcus wrote that Texas’ 2003 tort reform statute sparked an “amazing turnaround” in which doctors came … [Read More…]

Emotional Distress without Physical Damages – Supreme Court to Review

With a hat-tip to the blog, “How Appealing,” the ABA Journal is reporting that the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has asked the Washington Supreme Court whether its product liability laws will allow a … [Read More…]

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