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Defective Medical Devices and Their Impact on Patient Safety

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Defective medical devices present serious risks for patients. Just how big—and how severe—is the problem? Consider this from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA): “Each year, the FDA receives over two million medical...more

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What are experts saying about Stryker Accolade V40?

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Stryker Accolade V40 LFIT Hip Implant Dissociation - Over the past few years, various orthopedic surgeons around the country and their patients have faced a catastrophic failure of Stryker’s Accolade and V40 LFIT hip...more

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Are Stryker V40 Femoral Heads (CoCr) Defective?

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Stryker V40 Femoral Heads (CoCr) Associated With Spontaneous and Catastrophic Head-Neck Dissociation - Stryker may face yet another crisis associated with their total hip replacement medical devices – and this time it...more

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Australia Concerned About Stryker Made LFIT Femoral Heads

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On September 27, 2016, the Department of Health Therapeutic Goods Administration (the Australian equivalent of the Food & Drug Administration) issued a hazard alert relating to LFIT Anatomic CoCr V40 femoral heads...more

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Health Hackers: Problems in Applying Traditional Products Liability Theories to Latent Cyber-Vulnerabilities in Medical Devices

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October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month (yes, that’s a thing), so it seems fitting to write about an unprecedented alert recently released by the FDA to health care providers that warned of a medical device’s...more

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