Medical Devices & Implants - Last 90 Days

• UK Tells Surgeons: Stop Using Stryker/ J&J Metal Hips

  Cal Warriner | April 06, 2012 1:26 PM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL

  Hip replacement patients and their surgeons in the U.S. need to be made aware of a government warning out of the U.K. about a metal-on-metal hip (MoM) replacement combination with a high failure...

• DePuy Unloads ASR Hip Implant Inventory After Problems Were Known

  Joe Saunders | March 22, 2012 11:05 PM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL

  In 2009 after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration raised questions about the safety of the DePuy ASR Hip Implants Johnson & Johnson decided to sell all the hip implants in its inventories...

• FDA Revamps Metal-on-Metal Hip Implant Recommendations

  Brenda Fulmer | April 05, 2012 9:47 AM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL

  The FDA has issued some new guidelines for patients and orthopedic surgeons who are contemplating or have been implanted with metal-on-metal (“MoM”) hip implants. This information is...

• Most DePuy ASR Lawsuits Must Be Filed Before August 2012

  Joe Saunders | May 18, 2012 4:57 PM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL

  DePuy ASR hip implant patients in most states who do not file lawsuits before August 23, 2012 may lose their rights to compensation or to file a lawsuit. Every state has a law called the...