Contaminated Devices by LivaNova (fka Sorin) Dangerous for Heart Surgery Patients
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have put out warnings about contaminated devices used in open…
Medical Devices & Implants
Smith & Nephew Hip Recall
Smith & Nephew is a medical device manufacturer in London that provides their products worldwide used in hip, knee, and shoulder replacements. Their latest recall…
Dirty Surgical Scopes and Infection Risks
Medical scope contamination is a bigger problem than understood with 300 to 350 patients and 41 hospitals worldwide (most in the U.S.) reporting patients being…
Johnson & Johnson Hip Implant Verdict
Johnson & Johnson is the owner of DePuy Pinnacle metal-on-metal hip implants that were manufactured and distributed without any warnings by Johnson & Johnson of…
Sanofi Recalls Epi Injectors
Sanofi, the maker of epinephrine injectors for severe allergic reactions, has placed a recall on hundreds of thousands of its epi injectors due to the…
Wright Hip Replacement Lawsuits
Wright Medical Group is involved in ongoing litigation regarding the profemur replacement systems they manufactured for hip replacements. The product has been found to cause…
If you have a defective vaginal mesh implant, you need to act now.
One only has to speak to the victims of transvaginal mesh side effects, and their partners, to understand womanthis material is medically dangerous, causes severe…
Is NuvaRing a Fatal Birth Control Decision?
In 2001, the FDA approved a new birth control device, NuvaRing. By 2007, complications started to arise from the use of NuvaRing when a 32-year…
Granuflo/Naturalyte Litigation Demonstrate Potentially Devastating Effects for Patients of Dialysis
On March 29, 2012, the United States Food & Drug Administration (FDA) issued a Class 1 recall of a popular dialysis drug called GranuFlo, along…