Departing Johnson & Johnson CEO Weldon getting $143.5 million
Departing Johnson & Johnson Chief Executive Officer William C. Weldon, who is leaving after a spate of disastrous recalls, will get $143.5 million in retirement pay, according to Bloomberg....
View ArticleBloomberg: J&J sold mesh implant before FDA approval
According to a Bloomberg report, Johnson & Johnson sold a vaginal mesh implant for three years before the federal Food and Drug Administration approved the device. The report says Johnson &...
View ArticleJ&J requests extension to sell dangerous implants
Johnson & Johnson has requested that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration allow the company 120 days to take four types of vaginal mesh implants off the market, despite widespread complaints that...
View ArticleUrinary incontinence causes complications
Urinary incontinence, while not life-threatening, can be an embarrassing and inconvenient condition. And according to the Mayo Clinic, it also comes with a number of complications. Fortunately, the...
View ArticleQuestions to ask doctor about urinary incontinence
According to the Mayo Clinic, your time with your doctor is limited when you’re seeking treatment for urinary incontinence. So the clinic has prepared a list of questions that you may want to bring to...
View ArticleHave answers ready when getting incontinence treatment
Your doctor will likely ask you a series of questions if you’re seeking treatment for urinary incontinence. Anticipating those questions and having answers for them may allow more time for the points...
View ArticleMore than 6,000 federal mesh lawsuits filed
A story in the Philadelphia Inquirer says more than 6,000 federal lawsuits have been filed against some of the biggest manufacturers of pelvic mesh implants. Plaintiffs claim that the devices have...
View ArticleJury deliberating in vaginal mesh trial
A jury has begun deliberating in the case of a woman seeking $3.38 million for lost earnings and past and future medical expenses connected to injuries from a vaginal mesh implant. Linda Gross of South...
View ArticleMesh implant ‘felt like razors’
A story in the Philadelphia Inquirer includes an interview with a Georgia woman named Kathy Barton who received a vaginal mesh implant to treat bladder leakage. But she alleges that the implant ended...
View ArticleJury awards $3.5 million in vaginal mesh case
A New Jersey jury has awarded a woman $3.5 million in the first verdict of more than 2,100 lawsuits over a vaginal mesh implant manufactured by Johnson & Johnson’s Ethicon unit, Bloomberg reports....
View ArticleMesh verdict the first of 4,000 cases
According to a story in the Philadelphia Inquirer, a woman awarded $3.35 million in a case against Johnson & Johnson over the company’s vaginal mesh implant represents the first trial of 1,200...
View Article$3.35M mesh award gets international attention
A New Jersey jury’s decision to award $3.35 million to a woman who was injured by one of Johnson & Johnson’s vaginal mesh implants is getting international attention, according to a story on CTV...
View ArticleJury awards additional $7.76M in mesh case
A New Jersey jury has awarded a plaintiff injured by a Johnson & Johnson vaginal mesh implant $7.76 million in punitive damages, in addition to the $3.35 million she was awarded days earlier,...
View ArticleLegal troubles for makers of vaginal mesh
In a blog entry for the Philadelphia Inquirer, writer David Sell points out that two makers of problematic medical devices called vaginal mesh implants recently suffered significant setbacks on the...
View ArticleMesh jury awards $11.1m, says company failed to warn of risks
Members of a New Jersey jury that awarded a total of $11.1 million to a woman who received a vaginal mesh implant manufactured by Johnson & Johnson’s Ethicon subsidiary did not find a design...
View ArticleMesh implant patient launches protest
CTV Network out of Canada reports on a Manitoba woman who is staging a protest about the vaginal mesh device she had implanted during a hysterectomy in January, 2012. The report shows Christine of...
View ArticleTests evaluate urinary incontinence
Urinary incontinence can have a number of causes, according to the Mayo Clinic. They run the gamut from temporary causes, such as medication or overhydration; to relatively minor conditions such as...
View ArticleAnother legal decision against Ethicon
A judge recently ordered Johnson & Johnson’s Ethicon division to pay Irish health care products manufacturer Covidien $176.5 million in damages over a patent dispute, Bloomberg reports. At the...
View ArticleColumn describes pelvic organ prolapse
A column by local physician Christie Iverson, MD, in the Bismarck Tribune out of North Dakota describes pelvic organ prolapse. Iverson writes that the condition is basically what happens when a woman’s...
View ArticleMesh manufacturer feeling impact of lawsuit
Bloomberg reports that Denmark-based vaginal mesh manufacturer Coloplast’s stock dropped the most in almost four years over concerns about lawsuits that patients injured by the implants have filed. The...
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