A federal judge has ordered a former Medtronic Inc. employee to testify at a trial brought by shareholders of the medical device firm over marketing techniques of its Infuse bone growth product. According to a report from Law360.com, Judge Paul A. Magnuson has ordered the employee identified as CW2 to testify against his will regarding [...]

Even if Yale researchers are somehow able to independently vouch for the safety of Medtronic Inc.’s Infuse bone growth product, it is unlikely it will reverse its trend on the U.S. market. Since The Spine Journal published an extensive rebuke of Medtronic’s practice of suppressing evidence which showed Infuse was responsible for numerous adverse side [...]

British health regulators are set to warn recipients of metal-on-metal hip implants that they are at risk of metal poisoning and devices are overall more dangerous than previously thought. According to U.K.’s The Telegraph, The Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency’s products division is set to issue a warning to recipients of devices like the DePuy [...]

Members of the U.S. House are calling for one of its Committees to investigate the safety of two surgical devices, the Lap-Band gastric band and all forms of transvaginal mesh. These medical devices have been associated with a rash of recent incidents of serious injuries associated with their use. According to a Bloomberg report, House [...]

Most of the important communications regarding prescription drug safety and side effects go unnoticed, according to the results of a recent study on their effectiveness. According to a report from the online journal EndocrineToday.com, a University of Chicago team of researchers examined dozens of drug communications issued by the Food and Drug Administration since 1990 [...]

A Texas woman has become the latest to file a lawsuit against the makers of the NuvaRing contraceptive, claiming she suffered deep vein thrombosis just a month after beginning the treatment. According to The Southeast Texas Record, a local online legal journal, a Denton, Texas, woman seeks $10 million from a jury in a lawsuit [...]

The law firm of Parker Waichman Alonso LLP announced this week it would continue its fight on behalf of native Guatemalans seeking justice from the U.S. government over non-consensual experimentation conducted in the 1940s. The call comes on the heels of an announcement by the Dept. of Justice that it will seek to have an [...]

Health officials in the Netherlands believe women should have the Poly Implant Prosthese (PIP) silicone gel breast implant removed because it is likely to rupture and could pose serious health risks. According to a Reuters report, Dutch Health Inspectorate said in a statement this week that the failed breast augmentations should be removed even if [...]

The oft-reported failures of Medtronic’s bone growth product Infuse (bone morphogenetic protein-2 or BMP-2) has led to numerous reforms in the reporting of clinical trial date, specifically in medical journals. According to a report this week from Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the non-disclosure of clinical trial data which showed the numerous dangers of Infuse has led to [...]

The Food and Drug Administration has ordered 31 makers of transvaginal surgical mesh implants to collect safety data on the devices because a growing number of women and physicians believe they are responsible for thousands of injuries and seemingly unending pain. According to a report from Bloomberg, C.J. Bard and Johnson & Johnson were among [...]