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• Cobalt poisoning poses very real risk to DePuy hip implant patients

  Lawrence Egerton | February 13, 2011 8:37 PM | 2 CommentsGreensboro, NC Category: Medical Devices & Implants
  

  Along with the pain, swelling, surgical complications and other problems facing DePuy hip implant patients, another serious health threat is cobalt poisoning, or cobaltism. Thousands of patients...

• Metallosis: One danger of DePuy hip implant failure

  Lawrence Egerton | February 10, 2011 4:36 PM | 1 CommentGreensboro, NC Category: Medical Devices & Implants
  

  One of the complications that patients with a defective DePuy Orthopaedics hip implant may face is metallosis, a condition in which metal particles build up in the tissue around the implanted joint....

• It is vital that you retain possession of your hip explant

  Lawrence Egerton | January 25, 2011 9:09 PM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Archaeologists studying the bones of people buried thousands of year ago can uncover an amazing amount of information about how those people lived. The wear on a human skeleton can reveal such...

• DePuy hip implant replacement: One patient’s ordeal

  Lawrence Egerton | October 07, 2010 6:03 PM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC Category: Medical Devices & Implants
  

  After hip replacement surgery in February 2008, Kim Horbas was mobile and pain-free. But by the summer, her hip began to make a clicking sound when she walked. “It got louder and louder, so...

• DePuy hip implant recall and compensation: Too little, too late

  Lawrence Egerton | October 06, 2010 6:45 PM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC Category: Medical Devices & Implants
  

  On August 26, 2010, the DePuy Orthopaedics company, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, issued a voluntary recall of two hip replacement systems. About 93,000 of the devices have been implanted...

• DePuy hip implants: Why they fail, and how it can harm you

  Lawrence Egerton | October 05, 2010 8:15 PM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC Category: Medical Devices & Implants
  

  Have you had a Johnson & Johnson/DePuy hip replacement implant in the past few years? These devices have a 1 in 8 chance of failing, which would require you to have additional surgery, called...

• Hip replacements are not the only J&J recalls, congressional hearing shows

  Lawrence Egerton | October 02, 2010 5:54 PM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC Category: Medical Devices & Implants
  

  The Johnson & Johnson/DePuy hip replacement recall is a mind-boggling fiasco, with the devices having been implanted in 93,000 patients. Many will likely need painful and expensive...

• Do you have a DePuy hip replacement? Sign nothing!

  Lawrence Egerton | September 23, 2010 7:50 PM | 1 CommentGreensboro, NC Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Have you or someone you know had hip replacement surgery using a hip implant device made by the DePuy Orthopaedics company? You may be receiving a letter from your doctor asking you to come in for...

• Why Waiting Too Long To Hire A Railroad Injury Attorney Can Kill Your Case: The Top Five Reasons

  Randy Appleton | February 25, 2009 6:30 AM | 0 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  My railroad injury lawyer colleague Rick Shapiro wrote a short article titled: “Why Waiting Too Long To Hire A Railroad Injury Attorney Can Kill Your Case: The Top Five Reasons” which...