A recent study indicates that people with hip or knee replacements who were younger than 70 years of age at the time of surgery are at higher risk of needing revision surgery than those who were older than 70. Revision surgery after a failed joint implant either replaces the hip... Read more »

A measure that could impact how drugs and medical devices are approved by the FDA is currently awaiting its future in the U.S. Senate. H.R.6., also known as the 21st Century Cures Act has been approved by both the House of Representatives and the House Energy and Commerce Committee. However, concern... Read more »

In late February, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, in conjunction with the Brookings Institution, released a report detailing a new $250 million, seven-year initiative designed to create a national system of medical device surveillance. The development of such a program is an acknowledgment of the fact that while the... Read more »

Plaintiffs who have been waiting for litigation to progress in the DePuy ASR hip MDL will begin to see settlement payments very soon. Last fall, the manufacturer of the ASR hip system agreed to a DePuy hip settlement that was estimated to pay out more than $2 billion to 8,000... Read more »

Pelvic mesh manufacturer Covidien indicates it will pay $180 million in legal charges in its third quarter, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing. The charges are in relation to vaginal mesh products that two of the company’s subsidiaries supplied to manufacturers including C.R. Bard – another company... Read more »

After a proactive Superior Court Judge in Bergen County, New Jersey ordered opposing attorneys in the ongoing Stryker Rejuvenate and ABG II modular hip systems product liability litigation to submit to a mediation program in an attempt to resolve some of the many Stryker hip lawsuits before going to trial, the... Read more »

New research on total knee arthroplasty with prosthetic implants indicates that up to a third of all patients may be having unnecessary surgery, putting recipients at greater risk for health problems and incapacitating complications. The study was conducted at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, where researchers examined the records of... Read more »

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently announced final revisions to the guidelines for its updated medical identification database and tracking system. The final phase of the FDA’s Global Unique Device Identification Database (GUDID) was released on June 11 and provides updates for a draft of the regulatory... Read more »

According to a pretrial order issued by the Honorable Judge Joseph Goodwin, plaintiffs and defense have continued progress in settlement negotiations that may resolve hundreds of transvaginal mesh lawsuits against Coloplast – a Danish manufacturer of bladder slings and mesh inserts. The company has been named defendant in product liability... Read more »

Bayer is opposing a request by plaintiffs in nine Mirena IIH lawsuits to establish a new federal multidistrict litigation (MDL), which would centralize all IIH complaints in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. The plaintiffs, who filed the motion with the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict... Read more »