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The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation decided that all pretrial proceedings in federal lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson, parent of DePuy Orthopaedics, over recalled devices used in…
The Judicial Panel on Multi-District Litigation (JPMDL) convened on November 18th in Durham, NC. One of the matters on the docket was the Johnson & Johnson® DePuy hip implant litigation. The…
The Founding Fathers understood that lawsuits are a necessary means for a nation of civilized citizens to resolve their disputes. Hence, the Seventh Amendment to the Constitution which preserves an…
The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that it would reverse the approval of a patch for injured knees that it granted in 2008 after being unduly pressured by four New Jersey congressmen and…
You won’t hear this from the Chamber of Commerce, the tort reform movement (i.e., insurance company funded lobbyists), or the talk radio zealots who find it convenient to target lawyers, but,…
DePuy Orthopaedics, a division of Johnson & Johnson issued a worldwide recall of all components for its ASR™ XL Acetabular System (total hip implant) an DePuy ASR™ Hip Resurfacing…
Sadly, another promising therapy for brain trauma has been debunked by scientists. Paramedics have been administering highly concentrated saline solution given intravenously to victims of traumatic…
DePuy Orthopaedics, a division of Johnson & Johnson, has a big problem on its hands. The National Hip Registry data shows that within five years of receving either a DePuy ASR™ Hip…
New data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration shows that drunk driving deaths dropped to their lowest level since MADD has been tracking the data. The number of fatalities in…
Are we looking at Fen-Phen all over again? This month the FDA will decide the fate of the controversial diet pill Meridia [sibutramine], America’s second-most popular prescription diet drug. That…
Ever since my blog about the NFL Concussion Poster, I’ve received several comments and e-mails inquiring about the commercial availability of these posters. I have yet to find out where they can be…
A new study published in the July issue of the journal Brain Injury, (“Chiari and Whiplash Injury,” co-authored by Ezriel E. Kornel, M.D. F.A.C.S., Michael D. Freeman, Ph.D., et al.)…
