The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation established a DePuy Orthopaedics ASRMultidistrict Litigation (MDL) number 2197 in U.S District Court, Northern District of Ohio on December 7, 2010. The Northern District of Ohio is a federal court, and the MDL centralizes all the DePuy hip recall cases in federal court. At the time of the … [Read more...]
DePuy Hip System Recall Information
In August 2010, DePuy Orthopaedics issued a voluntary recall of its ASR Hip System, a metal-on-metal hip implant system, because a higher number of patients than previously reportedsuffered from pain, swelling, and difficulties walking. This system was first available in July 2003and was marketed in the United States starting in 2005. The ASR Hip … [Read more...]
Pradaxa is Getting More Competition
In a recent post, I discussed the drug Xarelto (chemically known as rivaroxaban) and the competition this product is running to Boehringer-Ingelheim's (BI) flagship product, Pradaxa (dabigatran). The introduction of Xarelto in the U.K., a product produced by Bayer and in the U.S. by our old friends at Johnson and Johnson (J&J), forced BI to cut its … [Read more...]
Stryker Modular Stem Hip Recall Just Latest Chapter In Complications For Company
In February of 2003, Stryker received approval from the FDA to market its Trident Hip Replacement system, and its products were soon being used in numerous hip replacement surgeries across the country. Soon thereafter the company began to receive complaints about its hip replacements and failed to take any action to accommodate those who had been … [Read more...]
Will Stryker’s Recent Hip Replacement Complications Result In The Formation Of A New Multidistrict Litigation?
Dianne Pingel of Florida needed a hip replacement and she got much more than she bargained for when she elected the use of Stryker Orthopedics’ product referred to as Rejuvenate. Only three months after her surgery, she was experiencing pain in her hip despite clean x-rays and other scans of her hip. The search for what was causing Pingel’s pain … [Read more...]
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