Medical Malpractice

• Human Tissue Recall from Biomedical Tissue Services

  Ed Smith | October 17, 2006 11:17 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA

  Every year there are approximately one and a half million new surgical procedures known as Allografts - surgical transfers of bone, skin, tendons, and other tissues in which tissues from cadavers are transplanted into patients.Recently, the New Jersey tissue company known as Biomedical Tissue Services was criminally indicted for illegally harvesting human tissue from corpses. Biomedical then...

• Guidant Lawsuit Money Set Aside

  Staff Writer | August 30, 2006 2:24 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA

  Boston Scientific announced earlier this month that it has set aside $381 million in anticipation of lawsuits stemming from faulty Guidant defibrillators and pacemakers. Boston Sci inherited Guidant's legal problems when it bought the company earlier this year for $27 billion.Included in the fallout are about 72 product liability class action lawsuits and about 477 individual lawsuits. The suits...