Posts tagged um

• Football Player’s Death Calls Attention to Depression Caused by TBIs

  Ed Normand | May 16, 2012 8:57 AM | 2 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  video platform video management video solutions video player This is an ABC News report discussing the death of former National Football League (NFL) linebacker...

• FDA Revamps Metal-on-Metal Hip Implant Recommendations

  Brenda Fulmer | April 05, 2012 9:47 AM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: Medical Devices & Implants
  

  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...

• Hundreds of Parks, Thousands of Injuries Every Year in Florida

  Ed Normand | April 04, 2012 9:30 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  While last month saw far too many headlines across the nation involving school bus accidents, the video above is news footage of another type of incident that many of us never really think...

• Consumer Report Has Concerns About Popular Medical Products

  Brenda Fulmer | March 29, 2012 5:29 PM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  A recent Consumer Reports article on medical device safety has generated a great deal of buzz (and concern) among patients. Consumer Reports, founded in 1933, is an expert, independent, nonprofit...

• DePuy Unloads ASR Hip Implant Inventory After Problems Were Known

  Joe Saunders | March 22, 2012 11:05 PM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Medical Devices & Implants
  

  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...

• Today’s 24 Hours Dedicated to Injury That Occurs Every 21 Seconds

  Council Wooten | March 21, 2012 9:52 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  March is Brain Injury Awareness Month, and today is Brain Injury Awareness Day. As noted in the video above from the traumatic brain injury (TBI) information website Brainline.org, somebody...

• The Debate Over Pradaxa (Dabigatran) Safety - Follow the Money

  Cal Warriner | March 20, 2012 10:19 AM | 2 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Boehringer Ingelheim, a German pharmaceutical company beat all competitors to the market with its new wonder drug Pradaxa. The new drug was touted as equal or superior to Coumadin (Warfarin) for...

• Families Struggle to Provide for BPI Victims While Insurance Companies Struggle to Understand BPIs

  Ed Normand | March 14, 2012 9:16 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  This video from the United Brachial Plexus Network (UBPN) highlights some of the mistakes made during childbirth that can cause a brachial plexus injury (BPI). The Mayo Clinic defines the...

• Wright Medical Modular Neck Fracture Hip Implant Lawsuit Filed

  Joe Saunders | February 22, 2012 5:10 PM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Medical Devices & Implants
  

  Today Saunders & Walker participated in the filing of a lawsuit in Phoenix Arizona involving the Wright ProFemur Total Hip System. This is a different type of hip implant lawsuit than most in...

• Metal on Metal Hip Implant Lawsuits Include Biomet

  Joe Saunders | December 18, 2011 10:09 PM | 1 CommentSarasota, FL Category: Medical Devices & Implants
  

  The wave of metal on metal hip implant lawsuits that have been filed now includes the Biomet Magnum hip replacement device. Legal cases that have been filed over the last few years have been...