Hip Implants

The limitations of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) medical device approval process explains the enormity of the DePuy ASR hip recall . DePuy Orthopaedics’ ASR XL Acetabular System and ASR Hip Resurfacing System both received FDA approval through the 510(k) premarket approval process (510(k) process), which allows medical device manufacturers to claim their new products are “substantially equivalent” to preexisting ones to avoid subjecting their devices to more rigorous...Read Full Story

After the DePuy hip replacement recall began in August 2010, recipients of the ASR XL Acetabular System and ASR Hip Resurfacing System came forward to discuss their hip replacement failure symptoms , including the swelling, clicking noises, loosening, dislocation, and worse, the metal poisoning that can result from cobalt and chromium ions flaking off the implant’s components. Thousands of injured recipients are filing DePuy hip replacement lawsuits against the manufacturer and its parent...Read Full Story

BISNAR | CHASE has learned that even after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration rejected the sale of Depuy Hip Replacements in this country over safety concerns, the health care products giant Johnson & Johnson continued to market the artificial hip in Europe and elsewhere overseas. During that same period, the company also continued to sell a related model in the U.S. That version passed inspection by using a regulatory loophole not requiring a similar safety review. It is not known how...Read Full Story

A law firm in Dublin has reported that over 60 patients who received faulty hip replacement systems manufactured by the Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices and Diagnostics Group of DePuy have contacted the firm and at least 80 percent of them are preparing to file lawsuits. Approximately 3,282 patients have had the DePuy ASR hip system implanted and nearly one-third of the implant surgeries were performed at a clinic in Waterford, however, clinic chief executive Donal O’Farrell said that the...Read Full Story

A version of DePuy Orthopaedics’ ASR hip implant that was rejected by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) in 2009 was marketed in Europe and elsewhere overseas, despite safety concerns raised by the company’s own studies. According to a report in The New York Times , the FDA’s rejection came as regulators and surgeons overseas, as well as some U.S. doctors, were raising serious concerns about both models of DePuy’s ASR Hip Implant.Read Full Story

When the Depuy Orthopaedic hip device was found to have a higher-than-average failure rate, no one anticipated the wave of metal-on-metal devices that would be put under the microscope. Several studies have since shown that metal on metal hip replacement devices contribute to serious health complications that can lead to painful revision surgeries and permanent health problems. The metal on metal hip failure attorneys at Bisnar and Chase are working towards providing financial compensation...Read Full Story

Life is all about the simple things, things that may not present real interest to many but that are vital for our existence in this world. Things like movement, sight and hearing are often left in a corner of our brain, being overshadowed by other daily activities. Only after we lose one of these key features of our body we realize how important they really are. Movement is and always will be very important in our life, no matter how evolved we will become. Even the simplest of tasks require...Read Full Story

Reaching out to fellow Republicans and seeking bipartisan support, US Democrats aim to block of medical devices with safety issues ,  Bloomberg reports. They mentioned injuries from flawed medical products, including those manufactured and distributed by Johnson & Johnson.   In a statement released by the Democrats led by Representative Edward Markey of Massachusetts, he explained that the bill introduced would close a loophole that lets devices win approval on the basis of their...Read Full Story

In May 2011 different engineers and medical experts created a registry tasked to track hip and knee implants, after the issuance of DePuy hip replacement recall.The group was named American Joint Replacement Registry (AJRR). In relation to this, US senators recently proposed a bill concerning medical products with safety issues , Bloomberg reports. “The goal is to track the more than 700,000 total hip and knee replacement surgeries that take place in the U.S. each year and, over time, record...Read Full Story

There is new method which may help doctors identify osteoarthritis at such an early stage, the Science Daily says, quoting study findings. This development may help lessen the increase of hip implant surgeries about " which court documents reveal to be more than 900 cases in DePuy Pinnacle MDL " . With this latest discovery, it may be possible to delay the development of osteoarthritis by many years, or maybe even stop it entirely, reports the Science Daily. There are more than 21 million...Read Full Story