Ethicon Recalls Surgical Staplers

Another Surgical Stapler Recall KBA has discussed surgical staplers several times before. Surgical staplers are medical devices. KBA handles medical device lawsuits routinely. Ethicon, a...

Knee Implant Failures and Bone Cement

What is bone cement and how it is used? Patients' medical conditions sometimes require the implantation of a medical device to replace damaged bone. One...

Knee Implant Failures May Be Due to Bone Cement

Patients who have had a knee replacement and a knee implant failure may be suffering due to high-viscosity bone cement failures. Traumatic injuries, aging, and...

First Death Related to Vaping

The first known death directly related to vaping has been reported in Illinois. State health officials reported the death on August 23, 2019, and did...

Apple Recalls Macbook Pro After Reports of Fire Risk

Earlier this month, Apple reported that over 432,000 of their MacBooks needed to be recalled due to injury reports. The recall is similar to the...

FDA Plans to Review Surgical Stapler Safety

In March this year, Kaiser Health News conducted an investigation that found that the FDA gave manufacturers of surgical staplers an “exemption” to file malfunctioning...

FDA Issues Class I Recall For Ethicon’s Circular Surgical Staplers

KBA previously noted problems with surgical staplers. Once again, defective surgical staplers are in the news. Today, following the FDA’s March 2019 warnings to surgeons...

Public Access to Medical Device Problem Files – FDA Says

FDA says secret files on medical device problems will be opened to the public One of the ways that consumers should be able to stay...

After Injuries, FDA Orders Transvaginal Mesh Off The Market

Lawsuits against manufacturers of surgical mesh to treat pelvic organ prolapse have been filed in the tens of thousands after the first reports of possible...

Medical Scopes Still Causing Superbug Infections And Deaths

During an endoscopy, medical scopes are inserted into a patient's body. Whenever a foreign instrument is placed inside the body, additional risks are introduced. Here,...

Defective Devices