Posts tagged defective medical devices

• Why Should Manufacturers of Defective Medical Devices be Free From Responsibility for Injuries They Cause?

  Todd Slaughter | February 20, 2009 5:18 PM | 0 CommentsRedding, CA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Anyone following this topic is aware that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last year that manufacturers of medical devices, even if the devices are defective, are immune from liability if the product...

• Guidant Initiates Worldwide Physician Communications Regarding Important Safety Information and Corrective Action about Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators

  Ed Smith | October 26, 2006 4:22 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Guidant Corporation is voluntarily advising physicians about important safety information regarding certain devices. Guidant has apprised FDA of these actions, and FDA has indicated that it will classify them as recalls. These communications advise physicians and their patients of safety information and are intended to limit adverse events. Physicians should use this information to decide how...

• Human Tissue Recall from Biomedical Tissue Services

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

  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...

• Manufacturer Responsibility for Defective Medical Devices is Getting Closer

  Todd Slaughter | August 05, 2009 12:21 PM | 1 CommentRedding, CA Category: Medical Devices & Implants
  

  Tuesday, 8/4/09, patients and doctors testified before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee in support of the Medical Device Safety Act of 2009 which will restore manufacturer...

• FDA Fundamentally Broken According to FDA Scientists, A Call to Action

  Todd Slaughter | January 08, 2009 1:01 PM | 0 CommentsRedding, CA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Isn't it amazing how liberating the truth is? This morning the Dow Jones Newswires reported that a group of FDA (U.S. Food & Drug Administration) scientists delivered a letter to...

• FDA Issues Nationwide Notification of Recall of Certain Guidant Implantable Defibrillators and Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Defibrillators

  Ed Smith | October 26, 2006 4:19 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  FDA is notifying health care providers and patients that the Guidant Corporation is recalling certain of its implantable defibrillators and cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators. These devices can develop an internal short circuit without warning, resulting in failure to deliver a shock when needed.

• Guidant Halts Use Of Defibrillators

  Ed Smith | October 26, 2006 4:15 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Medical device maker Guidant Corporation has announced a series of recalls culminating in a September 22, 2005 recall, recalling nearly 100,000 implanted defibrillators and pacemakers because of potential electrical malfunctions. The defect essentially places patients at risk as a result of an internal short circuit which comes without warning and can either result in a failure to deliver a...

• Guidant Lawsuit Money Set Aside

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

  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...