Oh come on folks, let's not drop the (NY JETS foot)ball just yet.
Anyone got an elderly family member who needed a hip replaced?
Perhaps even yourselves?
Witness: JNJ Lowered Own Standards To Deem Metal Hips Safehttp://psychroaches.blogspot.com/2013/01/witness-j-lowered-own-standards-to-deem.html[excerpt]
When Johnson & Johnson's ($JNJ) metal-on-metal hip implants failed an internal safety test, the company opted against fixing the issue and instead just changed its protocols, a witness testified in one of thousands of lawsuits the drug and device giant now faces.
As Bloomberg reports, a biomedical engineer told the court that J&J had ample opportunity to fix problems with its now-recalled ASR hip implants, and another witness testified that the device had a 44% failure rate over 7 years, citing Australian data.
J&J has already spent about $900 million to argue and settle suits since the ASR's 2010 recall, but analysts expect the 10,000 lawsuits now pending could cost the company billions.
JNJ Predicted 37% Hip Replacement Failure Ratehttp://psychroaches.blogspot.com/2013/01/j-study-predicted-37-hip-replacement.html[excerpt]
One year after Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) pulled 93,000 metal hip implants from the market, the company internally estimated that 37 percent of the devices would fail within 4.6 years, according to newly unsealed court records.
J&J faces 10,000 lawsuits over its ASR hips, which it pulled in August 2010 after citing U.K. joint registry data showing that more than 12 percent failed within five years. The estimate of triple the failure rate publicly cited by J&J came in documents unsealed Jan. 18 in the lawsuit of Loren Kransky in state court in Los Angeles.
JNJ Defective Hip Replacements: Trial Loomshttp://psychroaches.blogspot.com/2012/05/j-defective-hip-replacements-trial.html[excerpt]
Recipients of Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) (JNJ) hip implants recalled by the company will start going to trial later this year to help determine liability and damages in more than 6,000 lawsuits, lawyers said today.
J&J’s DePuy unit recalled its 93,000 ASR hips worldwide in 2010, including 37,000 in the U.S., saying more than 12 percent of the devices failed within five years. Lawsuits in federal and state courts describe patients in pain and immobilized by joint dislocations, infections and bone fractures.
JNJ Warns of Safety Risk For 7,500 Non- U.S. Hip Replacementshttp://psychroaches.blogspot.com/2013/02/j-warns-of-safety-risk-for-7500-non-us.html[excerpt]
Johnson & Johnson, the largest seller of health-care products, alerted doctors outside the U.S. to stop using the company’s Adept hip implant after a higher- than-expected failure rate.
A U.K. database found that 12 percent of patients needed a repeat surgery to fix the implant, which hasn’t been sold since 2011, the New Brunswick, New Jersey-based company said yesterday in a statement. About 7,500 of the hips were distributed in 21 countries, not including the U.S. Doctors were sent a safety notice on Jan. 14 about the product.
J&J recalled 93,000 of its ASR model hips in August 2010 and faces 10,000 lawsuits related to the products. The patients that are suing claim the implant left them in pain or immobilized by joint dislocations, infections and bone fractures. They also complain of high levels of cobalt and chromium ions from wear on the devices, in which a metal ball placed atop the femur rotates in a cup implanted in the hip.
