DePuy Synthes Companies of Johnson & Johnson has launched the TFN-ADVANCED ™ Proximal Femoral Nailing System (TFNA), a nail, blade and screw system designed to improve patient outcomes by more closely ...

The first hip replacement was performed in 1962. Hip replacements are now commonplace. Each year, more than 285,000 Americans receive artificial hips. In general, patients who receive artificial hips ...

DePuy Synthes has entered into an exclusive agreement with JointPoint Inc. to co-market a proprietary software platform that aims to help surgeons perform hip replacement surgeries. JointPoint's ...

(Reuters) - A unit of Johnson & Johnson that makes artificial hips has accused a surgical funding company of seeking excessive profits from financing surgery for patients suing over the devices. The ...

Just weeks after DePuy Orthopaedics Inc. announced a $2.5 billion settlement to resolve the bulk of the litigation over its recalled hip implants, some lawyers have raised concerns about the thousands ...

Chicagoan Scotty MacGregor can't walk very far these days, she says, without experiencing debilitating pain. In her line of work, that is a huge problem: she is a flight attendant based out of O'Hare ...

DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) -- It was supposed to be a surgery that would give Durham resident Juliana LaDue more mobility and get her back to being an active mom and wife. Instead, she said the hip ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson, which could face billions of dollars in costs over an artificial hip recall, is taking an unusual approach to managing the crisis -- one that could limit its ...

Last week at the British Hip Society Annual Conference researchers presented the results of studies into the failure rate of the recently recalled DePuy ASR XL device. The results were alarming.

Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge announced Tuesday that she has joined 45 attorneys general across the nation to reach a $120 million settlement with Johnson & Johnson and its wholly-owned ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Wendy R. Fleishman, a partner in the national plaintiffs' law firm Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, announces that Alec MacPhail, of Danville, California, has ...