The judge presiding over a collection of more than 30 lawsuits against power morcellator manufacturer Ethicon has triaged the discovery process to give priority to plaintiffs in dire health. Judge James P. O’Hara agreed to most of the terms of a jointly proposed order presented by the parties. The products... Read more »

A congressman has called for the FDA to investigate several hospitals on grounds that they failed to report deaths believed to have been brought on by power morcellators. Mike Fitzpatrick, a Representative from Pennsylvania, has taken up the mission of constituents who were left widowed and now blame the device. The... Read more »

Last week, a California woman filed a Mirena IUD lawsuit against Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals, Inc., its Finnish counterpart Bayer Oy, and their German parent company Bayer Pharma, AG. The November 18, 2015, complaint was filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California and alleges that... Read more »

For over a decade, the use of IVC filters to prevent deep vein thrombosis has been controversial. Now a new study backs up some of the critics, concluding that implanting an inferior vena cava filter does not improve a trauma patient’s chances of survival and may actually contribute to additional... Read more »

A Louisiana woman is seeking compensation for injuries that she alleges were caused by the Mirena intrauterine device (IUD) and its subsequent surgical removal. On September 24, 2015, Ashley Fleming, of Franklinton, Louisiana, filed a lawsuit against Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals, Inc., alleging that Bayer was negligent in its design, manufacture,... Read more »

Mirena, a popular contraceptive, is one of only two hormonal intrauterine devices (IUDs) approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Interesting in light of the recent reports of Mirena IUD organ perforation, a recent German study compared injuries between copper and hormone-releasing intrauterine devices. The study found no... Read more »

As tens of thousands of injured women wait for resolutions of their vaginal mesh lawsuits, a bellwether trial that was scheduled to begin this month has been delayed. Judge Joseph R. Goodwin, of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia, postponed the trial against Ethicon by... Read more »

Last week, in response to calls for a laparoscopic power morcellator recall, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that the surgical devices would be given a new boxed warning on the labels. The boxed warning is the strictest warning that the FDA requires short of pulling a device from... Read more »

As thousands of lawsuits mount across the country over Mirena IUD risks, a new study by the American College of Obstetrics & Gynecology focuses on a woman’s age and number of pregnancies as possible factors in IUD expulsion. The three-year study compared these risk factors in women implanted with hormonal... Read more »

Hospitals across the country advertise their high-tech (and expensive) medical robots as a safer and more effective way to perform surgical procedures. But researchers from Columbia University recently examined the costs and payoffs of robotic surgery – like da Vinci robot hysterectomy, ovarian cyst removal, and a host of other... Read more »