Dallas Fort Worth Injury Lawyer BlogLaparoscopic morcellator lawsuits are increasing slowly but surely, filed by injured women who had undiagnosed uterine cancer spread during a minimally invasive hysterectomy. Recently, according to the Wall Street Journal, a settlement has been reached in one of the first federal lawsuits. Lina Medical reportedly has agreed to settle Scott Burkhart’s wrongful death claim of […]
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J & J Ethicon Stops Hysterectomy Power Morcellators Over Cancer Risk
Johnson & Johnson’s Ethicon subsidiary has announced that it will stop selling its power morcellators used for uterine fibroid removal surgery. Medical research has shown that use of the devices during minimally invasive laparoscopic hysterectomy and myomectomy procedures may carry a risk of spreading sarcoma cancer. Johnson & Johnson Ethicon: No Recall The company, which […]
FDA Drospirenone YAZ Advisors Had Bayer Links
This is an interesting issue of conflict of interest, impartiality and doing the right thing, as reported by the Wall Street Journal. Talk about the fox guarding the chicken house! In December, an advisory panel for the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) voted to recommend by 15-11 margin that the benefits of Yaz, Yasmin […]
Medtronic Settles US Justice Case on Kickbacks
Another example of a corporation being caught with its hand in the cookie jar. Medtronic has agreed to pay the U.S. Justice Department $23.5 million to settle allegations that the company paid doctors to implant its pacemakers and defibrillators. The Justice Department investigation alleged that Medtronic paid doctors between $1,000 and $2,000 per patient implanted […]
Columbia MO University Hospital Settles Medical Malpractice Lawsuit
University Hospital doctors have settled a medical malpractice lawsuit filed by a Lake of the Ozarks couple for $2.5 million. Susan Martin, now 49, was treated at University Hospital in early 2005 for dehydration, which was the result of a gastrointestinal-related condition, her attorney, Morry Cole, said. The lawsuit claims doctors infused her with nutritional […]
Medtronic Paradigm Recall: Quick-Set Infusion Sets for MiniMed Insulin Pump
Medtronic Inc. has recalled three million disposable infusion sets designed for their MiniMed Paradigm insulin pumps after discovering that some of them could deliver incorrect doses of insulin, potentially leading to injury or death. The Medtronic Paradigm recall involves one lot of Quick-set infusion sets, which are disposable plastic tubes used to infuse a diabetes […]
Baxter Contaminated Heparin Class Action Lawsuit Filed
A class action suit against the maker of a blood thinning Heparin drug claims the company is substituting safer ingredients – cooked, dried pig intestines – with more dangerous ones. Joyce Ann Osteen of Illinois is suing Baxter over its anticoagulant drug Heparin in St. Clair County Circuit Court. She claims the company began substituting […]
Medtronic Lawsuit Over Spinal Implant
Medical device maker Medtronic Inc. said it did not encourage the unapproved use of its spinal implant, which a new lawsuit is blaming for the death of a California woman. The lawsuit, filed by the woman’s family in Los Angeles, said her death was caused by use of the Infuse spinal graft in her neck. […]