1. What is “DePuy Orthopaedics” and how is it related to Johnson & Johnson? DePuy Orthopaedics Inc. designs manufactures and distributes orthopedic devices such as artificial hips knees and shoulders. Johnson & Johnson is the parent company of DePuy. 2. What replacement hip devices did DePuy recall? On… Read more

DePuy Orthopaedics (a company owned by Johnson & Johnson) has been in the news recently because it issued a worldwide recall of two hip replacement devices that it manufactured. If you had a hip replaced in the past several years you might be concerned that this DePuy recall affects you. The information on this page is… Read more

If you’re first hearing about the recall of the ASR XL Acetabular System and the ASR Hip Resurfacing System manufactured and sold by DePuy Orthopaedics (a Johnson & Johnson company) you will likely want to know for certain whether you had one of these dangerous defective devices implanted in you—especially if you had hip replacement… Read more

Johnson & Johnson/DePuy Orthopaedics’ ASR Hip Resurfacing System and ASR XL Acetabular System were recalled by the manufacturers on August 8 2010 because of mounting evidence that the devices have higher-than-expected early failure rates. The devices intended to last around fifteen years have a 12-13 percent failure rate… Read more

J&J/DePuy knew that its products were dangerous for some time. But despite acknowledging the problems with the ASR devices, DePuy continued to market them until the worldwide recall…. Read more

You’ve just learned about the worldwide recall of Johnson & Johnson/DePuy Orthopaedics’s ASR XL Acetabular System and ASR Hip Resurfacing System. You had hip surgery after July 2003 which means it is possible that you were implanted with a defective dangerous device that deposits toxic metal debris into your bloodstream and has the… Read more