‘Medical Device Injury’ Category

A new study confirms what many metal-on-metal hip replacement patients already know — implants with small diameter heads can also lead to an adverse reaction to metal debris.

It was already well-documented that large diameter heads in metal-on-metal hip implants can cause aseptic loosening and other problems caused by the release of metal debris in the body. In an effort to reduce the...

Until very recently, power morcellators were frequently used by surgeons in laparoscopic hysterectomies and procedures to remove fibroid growths. Use of the devices is not so popular, however, after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration cautioned that power morcellators could cause the spread of undetected cancer. United States health insurance providers are also weighing in on the subject by...

Patients in the United Kingdom are experiencing the same problems with metal-on-metal hip replacements that those here in the United States are suffering. The manufacturers of one defective metal hip device called the ‘Birmingham Hip Modular Head total hip replacement’ (BHMH) have recently disclosed that their product is holding up much worse than was previously known. Smith & Nephew...

Johnson & Johnson and Boston Scientific Corp. — two manufacturers of vaginal mesh implants that have caused injuries to many women across the nation — have lost their bid to toss almost 100 transvaginal mesh cases out of court in Pennsylvania.

The pelvic mesh cases are pending in the...

Power morcellation, according to three Johns Hopkins physicians, can cause benign uterine disease to spread. Three case reports from the Baltimore Maryland hospital demonstrated that use of the morcellator medical device may require more extensive surgery later and increase a patient’s risk of death. Three physicians with Johns Hopkins’ prestigious Kelly Gynecologic Oncology Service...

The dangers of vaginal mesh were recently addressed by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in an article that reviews data made available in the last year. Authored by John R. Fischer, M.D. of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, the article is entitled: “What Is New in the Use of Mesh in...

UnitedHealth Group Inc. is putting more restrictive coverage rules into place for hysterectomies performed with a power morcellator. The nation’s largest health insurer will reportedly require health care providers to provide advance notification and obtain advance approval for abdominal hysterectomies and hysterectomies involving “keyhole” laparoscopic...

Metal-on-metal hip implants can lead to metal debris migrating from the device into the blood and surrounding tissue, according to the European Commission’s (EC’s) Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks (SCENIHR). The EC described the potential health risk in a recently released fact sheet for patients requiring a hip replacement. The fact sheet is entitled:...

A California jury recently awarded $5.7 million in a lawsuit brought by a woman who had endured horrific pain and continued urinary problems after being implanted with Ethicon Inc.’s TVT-Abbrevo pelvic mesh medical device.

Two new studies have cast further doubt on the safety of using the medical device, laparoscopic power morcellators, during hysterectomies and myomectomies.

A study by University of Michigan scientists published in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology has reported that one in 368 women who undergo hysterectomies due to fibroid growths in the uterus have an undetected uterine sarcoma....