18th August, 2011 - Posted by health news - No Comments
Hip injury can be ascertained through the presence of hip pain. The location, duration, and characteristic of the hip pain varies from person to person. Hip injury is caused by a lot of factors and the symptoms experienced coincide with the prevailing cause of injury. For people over the age of 50, it was discovered that osteoarthritis is the most common cause of hip pain. People inflicted with grave form of bone disease such as osteoarthritis may find it necessary to have a hip replacement procedure. In the article What Caused The Stryker Trident Hip Replacement Recall, there is enough reason why one should be cautious on what operation to forgo and ensure the safety of the devices to be used. Continue reading Read More
20th December, 2010 - Posted by health news - No Comments
Typically, the buyers of defective products are the ones who have had to endure the pain and suffering caused by the flawed items. In product liability claims, a plaintiff can sue a person or company that is responsible for creating, developing, manufacturing and selling the flawed products. Consumers have been protected by this law and has made manufacturers careful about the products they create. Still, there are products available that inflict varying stages of harm to consumers. Continue reading Read More
19th December, 2010 - Posted by health news - No Comments
DePuy Orthopaedics’ sheer incompetence and complete lack of responsibility in the manufacture of malfunctioning metal hip implants caused an enormous domino effect in the individual lives of the patients. In the first place, these patients consented to hip replacement surgeries to achieve normal lives without the added burden of physical problems. The sad fact that 1 in every 8 recipients of DePuy hip implants will undergo a revision surgery horrified the public, not the mention the 13% failure rate of these implants. The facts and figures regarding what the defective implant can potentially cause are undeniably overwhelming, and so are the disheartening stories of the victims of the DePuy hip recall. Continue reading Read More