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May 28th, 2013 JSophy
The growing federal lawsuit which includes women who claim they were injured by the Mirena IUD contraceptive device took a major step forward recently. On May 22, U.S. District Judge Cathy Seibel appointed Parker Waichman LLP’s Senior Litigation Counsel Matthew J. McCauley to the role of Co-Lead Counsel in the Mirena IUD multidistrict litigation (MDL), [...]
May 20th, 2013 tmccoy
Intuitive Surgical has heavily marketed the da Vinci surgical robot system as innovative system for procedures such as a hysterectomy, but women may want to think twice about it. Experts are worried about the serious, potentially fatal injuries that can occur with the robot. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is investigating the da [...]
May 10th, 2013 JSophy
A science fair project by a California high school freshman was presented recently to doctors gathering at the annual Heart Rhythm Society meeting in Denver; this was because it showed that the magnets in the popular iPad2 mobile device can alter the function of implanted cardiac defibrillator devices. According to a Bloomberg News report this [...]
May 10th, 2013 JSophy
Those filing lawsuits over the da Vinci Surgical Robot claim that the company responsible for the device rushed surgeons through a training process so hospitals would use the advanced technology more frequently. Intuitive Surgical Inc. denied that assertion in the first of what could be many more personal injury cases the company faces. According to [...]
April 10th, 2013 edlieber1
A Texas man says the Bair Hugger surgery device forced contaminated air into his hip joint, seriously infecting it, during a 2011 hip replacement surgery; he subsequently has been forced to endure an additional 15 surgeries. The man has become one of the first to file a lawsuit against the maker of Bair Hugger, a [...]
March 19th, 2013 JSophy
An MRI scan may be able to detect complications caused by a metal-on-metal hip implant sooner for many recipients, potentially leading them to a revision surgery to replace it before it causes too much damage. According to a release from the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), a new study presented at its recent annual [...]
March 12th, 2013 bscott
Federal health officials have launched a formal investigation into the safety of surgeries performed by the da Vinci surgical system robot after hearing many complaints from recipients of procedures done by this device. The da Vinci Surgical Robot is increasingly used by hospitals to perform prostate removal hysterectomies and other surgeries, and was cleared by [...]
February 8th, 2013 JSophy
A pre-existing infection caused by numerous health problems Loren Kransky suffered from and not his allegedly defective hip implant caused him to suffer a series of complications he blames on the DePuy ASR metal-on-metal hip implant. On Tuesday, according to a Bloomberg report, attorneys representing the medical device company attempted to tell jurors that Kransky, [...]
January 29th, 2013 JSophy
Lawyers representing the first victim of the defective DePuy Orthopaedics ASR metal-on-metal hip implant say that executives with the company were aware of design flaws since the device was introduced to the market in 2005 and actively concealed documents that showed many people were likely to experience problems just a few years after receiving it. [...]
January 28th, 2013 JSophy
The makers of the DePuy ASR metal-on-metal hip implant have known since it was introduced that the medical device would likely fail many of its recipients early, causing them to suffer from severe pain and lead to revision and replacement surgeries long before they were saying the implants would last. According to a New York [...]
