Medical Devices & Implants

• Product Letter From Baxter Receives FDA Severe Urgency Level

  Jamie Sheller | March 18, 2009 10:52 AM | 0 CommentsPhiladelphia, PA

  In January Baxter International issued a warning letter to customers regarding its Colleague Volumetric Infusion pumps. The pumps are used to deliver intravenous fluids and medicine to patients in...

• Lasik surgery expert witness

  Pete Burns | March 09, 2009 1:17 PM | 1 CommentMobile, AL

  Some experts will say anything. The defense Lasik surgery expert, Dr. Woolfson, testified that he has performed approximately 70,0000 Lasik procedures without ever performing the wrong prescription....

• Congressmen Push To Nullify Supreme Court’s Medical Device Decision

  Greg Webb | March 03, 2009 8:00 AM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA

  Some members of Congress are attempting to remove a 2008 Supreme Court decision that stands as a barrier against suing medical device manufacturers. This ruling has barred patients, or their...

• PAGCL Caused By Shoulder Pain Pumps

  Jamie Sheller | February 25, 2009 12:57 PM | 0 CommentsPhiladelphia, PA

  Intra-articular pain pumps deliver pain medicine directly into surgical sites, such as shoulders. Medications such as lidocaine and bupivacaine are delivered via an implanted disposable device....

• Federal Probe Into Stryker Leads To Guilty Pleas

  Jamie Sheller | February 23, 2009 12:51 PM | 0 CommentsPhiladelphia, PA

  Two former sales representatives of Stryker Corp. have pleaded guilty in a Justice Department inquiry into the company. In 2008, the U.S. Attorneys office in Boston began an inquiry into Stryker, a...

• Medtronic Brain Device Approved For OCD Treatment

  Chrissie Cole | February 19, 2009 12:57 PM | 0 CommentsCorpus Christi, TX

  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Medtronic’s deep brain stimulator designed to help treat patients that suffer from severe obsessive-compulsive disorder, or...

• FDA not enforcing medical device safety standards

  Jessica Smagacz | February 18, 2009 11:34 PM | 0 CommentsAtlanta, GA

  The Associated Press reported today that an independent watchdog group said FDA “has quietly scaled back enforcement of federal quality regulations at labs that develop medical...

• Curing Incontinence May Cause Greater Harm

  Brenda Fulmer | February 18, 2009 4:41 PM | 2 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL

  The Food & Drug Administration recently issued warnings to patients and physicians regarding the rising tide of complaints related to surgical mesh products. Specifically, the medical...

• Pain Pump Cases In Ohio

  Brett Goodson | February 16, 2009 2:48 PM | 1 CommentCincinnati, OH

  One of the fastest growing areas of litigation in Ohio are the pain pump cases. Young high school and college athletes who had shoulder surgery in 2005 and 2006 and before are finding out that...

• I-Flow Corporation Versus the FDA: Touche!

  Armand Rossetti | February 13, 2009 3:15 PM | 2 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL

  On December 22, 2008 the FDA sent a 483 Warning Letter to I-Flow Corporation, manufacturer of the ON-Q pain pump. The Warning Letter stated numerous manufacturing and related violations, and the FDA...