Federal law requires hospitals to report any serious injury which was potentially caused by a medical device to the manufacturer of that device within 10 days the injury occurred. Hospitals are also required to notify both the manufacturer and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)…
Johnson & Johnson for many years represented the risks of vaginal mesh implants for thousands of patients, according to the attorneys general of Washington state and California this week as they filed lawsuits against the healthcare giant. One of the patients named in one of…
The number of transvaginal mesh lawsuits has now increased to more than 100,000 in the US. Women in the US who have had the procedure are continuing to have complications from these relatively new defective devices. What Is Transvaginal Mesh? TVM is an implant that…
A recent report by Bloomberg revealed that the medical device giant, Stryker Corp., will stop selling three versions of its Neptune Waste Management System after two people were...
Medical device manufacturer Boston Scientific and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have issued a Class I recall of nearly 230,000 iCross coronary imaging catheters. The recall category...
