Reuters News Agency is reporting an important development in the massive DePuy Orthopaedics Inc. recall of two of its metal artificial hip implant systems in which DePuy’s parent company, Johnson & Johnson is apparently trying to limit its financial exposure. Facing more than 2,000 DePuy lawsuits and billions of dollars in damages from DePuy lawsuits [...]

An abnormally high failure rate of about 12 to 13 percent has been cited in the fallout over the recall of some models of the DePuy hip implant systems. It is not known whether this rate was caused by a poorly designed or manufactured product or what other factors may have been behind this recall. [...]

We live in an electronic age but there are many instances in which important information does not get out to the public as intended. This may be particularly true of the elderly, who are not as tech-savvy as later generations. This segment of the population is the most common to hip-replacement operations and there is [...]

If you are one of the many victims of negative side effects from a DePuy hip implant operation it is to your best interest to keep abreast of consumer developments about this product. In 2010 Johnson & Johnson, DePuy’s parent company, was forced to issue recalls on two of the DePuy products. The recall was [...]

Feb 17, 2011
Anyone who’s had an elderly relative take a tumble and break a hip can appreciate the pain and suffering that comes with hip problems. The situation can make their lives and yours miserable. The doctors, of course, are quick to recommend hip implants because that’s the fast and easiest way to address the [...]

January 27, 2011
Many people over the years have suffered from a broken hip.
New medical technology has created an industry based on making artificial hips. Many of these devices have two or three pieces that make up a total or partial hip replacement.
Many of these hip replacement devices are safe for the consumer [...]

NEWS: 1/13/2011
We’ve been getting reports from both the medical community and from the health care industry that many people who have had a AlloDerm Regenerative Tissue Matrix used for a hernia are having some complications from the this mesh patch.
So if you have had a hernia and used a AlloDerm Regenerative Tissue Matrix and have [...]

NEWS: March 19, 2008
State health officials in Nevada have found evidence of another hepatitis C case related to the first outbreak at the Shadow Lane facility that was closed down last week.
Many weeks after a procedure was performed at the Desert Shadow clinic, the patient’s doctor made a diagnosis of the infection, the health [...]

NEWS March 17, 2008
In a new development in the story of a south Nevada Endoscopy Center has entered the picture.
Lawyers representing the victims are trying to unravel the liability insurance now, they’ve uncovered a mere $3 million in malpractice-insurance coverage at the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada, where as many as 40,000 [...]

March 14, 2008
NEWS on Nevada HEP C SCARE
A lawyer in Nevada has already taken on 1,700 people in what may be a case action lawsuit.
The lawyer may also sue Clark County for unsafe business practice.
 
One victim speaks out: Wharton just learned she has hepatitis C.
 “I’m just frustrated because of the fact that this happened,” she [...]