According to federal traffic safety data, the number of deaths on U.S. roads has decreased significantly in recent years. However, the decline in fatal car accidents is not due to safer and more conscientious driving habits, but to innovative safety features in new...
Month: March 2012
J&J began phasing out hip implant after FDA safety data request
According to a recently released document, New Jersey company Johnson & Johnson began taking action to phase out the use of its metal-on-metal artificial hips just weeks after the receiving a letter from U.S. Food and Drug Administration. In that letter, the...
New Jersey company sold dangerous product without FDA approval
As we previously discussed, several members of Congress are working to close a loophole in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's approval process. Currently, the 501(k) process requires the FDA to approve medical devices if a manufacturer can show that the device is...
Faulty hip replacement products could increase cancer risk
In recent weeks, we have written extensively on the issues surrounding the DePuy Orthopaedics articular surface replacement (ASR) metal-on-metal hip replacement joints. Essentially, these faulty medical products have caused thousands of people in New Jersey and...
Faulty breast cancer diagnosis led to unnecessary surgery
Although this case did not take place in New Jersey, it provides a unique example of the potentially life-changing harm that can take place following a misdiagnosis of breast cancer. Normally, plaintiffs file medical malpractice lawsuits after doctors have failed to...
New Jersey pedestrians have greater crash risk on older highways
Pedestrians who walk along older state highways are at a greater risk of being fatally struck by a motor vehicle, according to a new report. This increased pedestrian accident rate is present even on streets with sidewalks, indicating that New Jersey transportation...
FDA device director supports closing approval loophole (2)
Earlier this week, we talked about the loophole in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's 510(k) medical device approval process which reportedly allowed for the approval of a vaginal mesh product manufactured by New Jersey-based Johnson & Johnson. Recently,...
FDA device director supports closing approval loophole (1)
Last month, we wrote about federal legislators' efforts to close the loophole in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's medical device approval process. Now, it appears that a top official with the device division of the FDA agrees that such a change should be made....
Accidents caused by angry drivers at issue in proposed NJ law
In 2005, a 16-year-old New Jersey teenager was paralyzed from the chest down in a single-car crash when the vehicle in which she was a passenger slammed into a telephone pole. A police investigation later revealed that road rage was responsible for the car accident....