Johnson & Johnson sold hip implants overseas after they were rejected in US

[Judi Lynn]

Johnson & Johnson sold hip implants overseas after they were rejected in US
About 5,000 lawsuits are pending, including some from patients crippled by tiny particles of metallic debris
By BARRY MEIER
New York Times
updated 32 minutes ago

The health care products giant Johnson & Johnson continued to market an artificial hip in Europe and elsewhere overseas after the Food and Drug Administration rejected its sale in the United States based on a review of company safety studies.

During that period, the company also continued to sell in this country a related model, which earlier went on the market using a regulatory loophole that did not require a similar safety review.

~snip~

During some eight years on the market, the two implants were used in about 93,000 patients worldwide, about one-third of them in the United States. Both models were based on the same component, an all-metal hip socket cup that experts say was faulty in design.

The DePuy orthopedic division of Johnson & Johnson, citing declining sales, began phasing out both models of the device — formally known as an articular surface replacement device, which DePuy marketed under the name ASR — in November 2009 and formally recalled them in August 2010 amid reports in databases of orthopedic patients abroad showing they were failing prematurely at high rates.

More:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46393850/ns/health-the_new_york_times/

[peacebird]

2. Johnson &Johnson, a Family company......

obviously a 'dysfunctional family' company, or a true repuke-style "family values" company...

[PSPS]

7. It's S.C. Johnson that's "a family company." J&J is just "a company!"

[peacebird]

15. Thanks, i always thought they were one in the same.

[Report1212]

3. That's horrible

But maybe it means that our regulators were tougher than Europe's for once.

[nanabugg]

4. Judi on the job again!! Thanks. nt

[jwirr]

5. That is not a new practice. Drugs too old to be effective, etc. have been sold overseas for years.

And we wonder why so many do not like our little empire.

[JCMach1]

6. My friend's mom had a replacement that failed within weeks in Nairobi

and had to have a second surgery...
the timing is right... I have to wonder if this wasn't the cause.

[lunasun]

8. All the people injured by J&J They are legion

Did you read the part that said ""patients crippled by tiny particles of metallic debris ""
They already knew what could , no statistically, would happen

How they hid all the effects of Ortho Evra birth control including death -years

Johnson & Johnson reached a $158 million settlement in a Medicaid fraud lawsuit allowing the drugmaker to pay a fraction of the potential $1 billion in penalties and fines that state officials had initially sought- just last month- for the drug Resperdal .Yeah check out the creep factor on that story. On a state-by-state level, they infiltrated the mental-health system.
They never pay anything in fines always drops in a big bucket

Leviquin - again all the side effect including death hidden and still widely prescribed when it should be restricted

Their pharm sales & reps are sharks feeding on your body and $$ if you let them
almost as bad a Bayer

Most stock holders count the profits and refuse to reign in the evil when the subject is brought up at share holder meetings by the very very few concerned.

you can see their greedy arms reach across the world
even the compromised FDA would not pass this one.

[otohara]

9. How Chinese Of Them

Can't trust any corporation these days.

[Snake Alchemist]

10. Wait weren't these products OK'd in the countries they were sold in?

If that's the case then I'm not sure what is expected. If a US product is not allowed to be sold in Venezuela, does that mean it should not be sold in the US?

[Honeycombe8]

11. that's what I was thinking. It's up to each country to have its own FDA-type org. for approval.

So I guess the lawsuits are still for defective product. Even if a product is "approved" by a govt entity, that only guarantees it passes some threshold of proven safety and does not ensure that the product is not defective. A product can be great and perfect 99 times, but something goes wrong in manufacturing, and one of the products ends up being defective.

[LiberalEsto]

12. J&J is one of the nastiest corporations I know

I have an elderly friend who had a hip implant several years ago. She has never been well since, with infections and losing her ability to walk. She has been in an out of the hospital, and now lives in a nursing home, unable to even sit up. She is a retired nun and is totally broke. I would not be at all surprised if this was the type if implant she got.

[Snake Alchemist]

13. I don't deny that J&J may be a horrible corporation.

But your example could have multiple causes: Poorly installed by the dr., other underlying medical problems, etc.

[LiberalEsto]

14. I didn't say her implant was made by J&J

I said I would not be surprised if it was. I was trying to illustrate the kind of suffering that a person with a bad hip implant can go through, because I have a friend who got some kind of bad implant.

The reason I said I would not be surprised if it was a J&J implant is because I had issues with J&J many, many years ago on totally unrelated topics.