- Brett Emison | March 06, 2012 10:16 AM | Kansas City, MO
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Medical Devices & Implants
The New York Times reported on February 29 that British health regulators are extending the monitoring period for patients that have received a metal-on-metal hip implant due to metal debris...
- Brett Emison | February 23, 2012 9:30 AM | Kansas City, MO
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Defective & Dangerous Products
A recently uncovered email circulated within Johnson & Johnson’s DePuy Orthopaedics medical device unit sheds new light on what DePuy executives knew and when they knew it. In August...
- Brett Emison | February 01, 2012 11:12 AM | Kansas City, MO
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FDA & Prescription Drugs
The FDA last month accused Johnson & Johnson subsidiary DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc. of selling 14 different types of medical devices without necessary FDA approval. The medical devices failing...
- Brett Emison | December 29, 2011 8:20 AM | Kansas City, MO
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Medical Devices & Implants
It wasn't that long ago that the New York Times confirmed the high failure rate for metal-on-metal artificial hips. Now, in “The High Cost of Failing Artificial Hips,” the New...
- Brett Emison | December 21, 2011 11:08 AM | Kansas City, MO
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Medical Devices & Implants
Much has been learned about the medical device industry since problems surfaced regarding DePuy Hip implants and Zimmer knee implants. DePuy - a division of Johnson & Johnson - has recalled...
- Brett Emison | December 01, 2011 11:22 AM | Kansas City, MO
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Medical Devices & Implants
I've written frequently about the the problems with DePuy and other types of metal on metal artificial hips:
Lack of testing under the FDA 510(k) approval process
High metal on...
- Brett Emison | October 25, 2011 11:17 AM | Kansas City, MO
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Medical Devices & Implants
Multi-million dollar payments to doctors by drug and medical device companies are nothing new. But as a Reuters report shows, the payments are increasing and raising ethical questions for doctors....
- Brett Emison | October 11, 2011 10:59 AM | Kansas City, MO
Category:
Medical Devices & Implants
NBC Nightly News aired this report last week:
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According to the report, the FDA has received nearly 11,000 reports of...
- Brett Emison | October 04, 2011 11:46 AM | Kansas City, MO
Category:
Medical Devices & Implants
The New York Times report is gruesome:
As surgeons here sliced through tissue surrounding a failed artificial hip in a 53-year-old man, they discovered what looked like a biological dead zone....