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Sort by date 826 pages found matching toyota recalls- Metal-on-Metal Hip Implants: Colossal Failure?
Oct-13-11 Vancouver, BC Sukinder has been living with chronic pain and walking with a limp since having metal-on-metal hip replacement surgery several years ago. "My orthopedic surgeon said the hip revision surgery is fine, but I know it isn't fine, and now, years later, I find out about metal-on-metal hip and knee recalls…" Sukinder was only 38 when h... - "Boomeritis" Buying into Hip and Knee Implants—but at What Cost?
May-25-11 New York, NY: Hip and knee replacements are one of the biggest moneymakers for medical device manufacturers, but at what price to hip and knee implant recipients? Judging from the recent metal-on-metal knee and hip recalls and mass tort litigation against device manufacturers including Stryker, Smith & Nephew, Howmedica and more, countless patients... - FDA Orders Post-Market Testing from Hip Implant Manufacturers
May-13-11 Washington, DC Issues surrounding hip replacement recalls and lawsuits—including DePuy Hip Replacement —will be refocused in the public consciousness yet again after a telling move by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to require manufacturers of problematic hips to conduct post-market testing on their products. According to The N... - Are Zimmer Cutbacks Related to Zimmer Knee Replacement Problems?
May-11-11 Warsaw, IN In spite of the appearance of healthy sales in the last quarter of 2010, Zimmer—the manufacturer of Zimmer Knee Replacement —recently implemented a number of "organizational changes as part of the company's transformation initiatives to accelerate growth and customer focus." However, those changes involved the elimination of posit... - Johnson & Johnson Reports Strong Sales despite Levaquin Side Effects
Apr-29-11 New York, NY Despite studies that have shown serious Levaquin side effects , sales of the antibiotic rose 17 percent to $434 million last quarter, reports Reuters . According to the news provider, Johnson & Johnson, the maker of Levaquin, reported overall quarterly earnings that were stronger than expected, particularly as the company has b... - How Badly Has the DePuy Hip Recall Hurt Johnson & Johnson?
Apr-7-11 Helena, MT Lawsuits may be piling up against Johnson & Johnson following their DePuy hip replacement recall, but it is an article in Bloomberg Businessweek that just might have people talking. The DePuy hip recall was announced after reports of an unexpectedly high failure rate in the hips, leaving patients at risk of DePuy hip revision surgery... - FDA Warns of Topamax Birth Defects
Apr-1-11 Washington, DC The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced recently that new data indicates the potential for Topamax birth defects in children born to women taking the anti-seizure treatment, according to the Dow Jones Newswires . The news source reports that as a result of the new information, the FDA has decided to strengthen its warning... - 34,000 Bottles of Tylenol 8 Hour Extended Release Recalled
Mar-30-11 Washington, DC Johnson & Johnson has announced yet another recall - this time it involves 34,000 bottles of Tylenol 8 Hour Extended Release Caplets. This brings the total of products recalled by J&J and its subsidiary McNeil Consumer Healthcare, to 300 million medication and medical products over the past 15 months, Drugwatch.com reports... - DePuy President Resigns amid Hip Replacement Recall and Lawsuits
Mar-19-11 Warsaw, IN The president of Johnson & Johnson's DePuy Orthopaedics unit recently resigned to pursue other interests amid the company's hip replacement recall and resulting lawsuits in the US and Canada, The Wall Street Journal reports. According to the news provider, David Floyd, who has been president of DePuy since 2007, will leave the compa... - Health Canada Advises Drug Recall, Possible Label Mix-Up
Mar-18-11 Ottawa, ON The Canadian health regulator announced yesterday the immediate voluntary recall of two drugs manufactured by Mylan Pharmaceuticals after a pharmacist noted the potential for a medication mix-up and potential mislabeling. According to a March 18 report by the Canadian Press (CP), the drugs at the center of concern are one lot of Mylan... - FDA Takes Control of Tylenol Plants
Mar-14-11 Washington, DC The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has filed a consent decree of permanent injunction against McNeil-PPC and two of its officers for failing to comply with current good manufacturing practice requirements as required by federal law. The action prevents McNeil, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, from manufacturing and distributing... - Hip and Knee Replacements Becoming More Common
Feb-26-11 Cleveland, OH The number of hip and knee replacements is rapidly increasing as the baby-boomer generation inches toward the age for retirement and the obesity rate continues to sit near 33 percent, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports. According to the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, knee replacements, which are the most common form of joi... - FDA Examining DePuy Hip Replacement Devices
Feb-17-11 Silver Spring, MD After the recent Depuy Hip Replacement recalls, the US Food and Drug Administration has decided to take a closer look at all-metal hip replacement implants, The Wall Street Journal reports. According to the news source, the agency recently unveiled a page on its Web site detailing the hip implants, saying that it is "actively wor... - Zimmer NexGen Recall?
Feb-11-11 Washington, DC Attorneys, knee surgeons and even former Zimmer consultants are all calling for a Zimmer NexGen recall, fast on the heels of a NexGen Complete Knee Solution recalled by the FDA last September 2010. The reason for the FDA's recall of Zimmer NexGen complete knee solution MIS total knee procedure stemmed tibial component is eerily simi... - Zimmer Durom Cup through the Words of a Young Man
Jan-22-11 Los Angeles, CA He is identified as William Long, MD, of the Dorr Arthritis Institute. In a past video posted on YouTube, Dr. Long appears as a calming influence in the unnerving debate over the Zimmer hip recall, amidst the pain, frustration and inconvenience encountered by patients looking for a mobility savior—and instead acquiring an enemy th... - China Refuses to Compensate for Chinese Drywall Problems
Jan-17-11 Washington, DC The pressure on Chinese drywall manufacturers to come clean, if you will, about the environmental toxicity of its tainted plasterboard has been ratcheted up of late with the visit to China in recent days of Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) Chairwoman Inez Tenenbaum, and the pending visit to the US of Chinese President Hu Jintao... - Kroger Recalls Pet Food in 19 States
Dec-20-10 Atlanta, GA In what will hopefully not turn into an unhappy Christmas for pet owners, a major distributor of pet food has announced a recall of select pet food packages from retail stores in 19 states. The Kroger Co. released details of a recall late Saturday involving certain packages of Pet Pride Cat Food, Pet Pride Kitten Food, Old Yeller Chunk Dog... - Millions of Roman Shades and Blinds Recalled
Dec-1-10 Washington, DC It's an old story, but new chapters are being written with the announcement this morning that Lowe's is recalling a whopping 11 million Roman shades and blinds due to the potential for strangulation. This follows a similar recall last year by other retailers. CNN reported this morning that the recall has been undertaken in concert w... - Meridia Is Off the Market, but Consumers Could Still Be at Risk
Nov-23-10 Rockville, MD Although Meridia has been pulled from the market due to the risk of serious Meridia side effects, consumers could still be exposed to Meridia-related side effects. Meridia is known generically as sibutramine, and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has created a list of weight loss products that contain sibutramine and could therefo... - Few Believed the Possibility of Denture Cream Zinc Poisoning
Nov-7-10 Dallas, TX It may be a little easier now to convince people about the dangers of denture cream zinc poisoning now that the word is out. But it wasn't even a year ago that those suffering from Fixodent zinc poisoning , or related suffering from similar products containing zinc, had a hard time getting people to understand just what was going on with them...