Recent Posts in Medical Device Injuries Category
Concerns about the implantable birth control device Essure, manufactured by Bayer, are continuing to spread on a global level. Though Bayer will be suspending sales of Essure worldwide by the end of this month, questions still remain for thousands of ...
The latest group of women seriously affected by Essure Permanent Birth Control System recently added their voices to the growing chorus of concerns about the medical device, which has been linked to perforated organs, severe pelvic pain, abnormal ...
New reports of women injured by Essure Permanent Birth Control System continue to flood the news across the globe. Recently, two women who are involved with the class action lawsuit against Bayer, the company that manufactures and distributes this ...
One of the women who joined in the class action lawsuit against Bayer over the permanent birth control implant Essure recently spoke out about the impact the implant has caused on her life. “It has ruined my life completely and I really regret ever ...
A group of women in Australia who suffered serious side effects from the permanent birth control product Essure have filed a lawsuit against Bayer, the pharmaceutical company that makes the implant. Learn more about the dangerous side effects caused ...
A team of researchers recently published a study where they found that proton pump inhibitors (PPI) may be tied to an increased risk of death. The study recently published in the BMJ Open looked into the product commonly used to help patients who ...
According to a study recently published in Kidney International, the prolonged use of certain heartburn drugs is tied to an increased risk of kidney damages. Kidney International is the official journal of the International Society of Nephrology ...
No matter how you look at it, shingles is an awful disease to deal with, and everyone who’s ever had chickenpox is already a host to the shingles virus. While we’re young, our body’s immune system is more than capable of keeping it quiet and tucked ...
A study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) on April 28, 2015 found that retrievable inferior vena cava (IVC) filters offered no additional benefit to patients at risk of developing potentially deadly blood clots that ...
Could it be true that a machine used for medical procedures was tied to superbugs and is still in use? This is the accusation brought forward in a new Bloomberg article that discusses action by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ...
Inferior vena cava filters, better known as “IVC filters,” are pronged medical devices used to prevent blood clots. They are named for their placement – in the inferior vena cava, the largest vein in the body. Since they entered the medical device ...
A Texas federal jury ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay roughly $500 million to five individuals who claimed to be injured by the Pinnacle metal-on-metal hip implants made by DePuy. After the two-month trial, the jury deliberated for a week, after ...
A new report by NBC News shows that C.R. Bard, manufacturers of the G2 series of IVC filters, may have known about the device’s potential risk. Yet, they did not take action to have the filters removed from the market. The inferior vena cava (IVC) is ...
