Updates

Documents released just before the first ASR trial show that J&J execs knew the implant was flawed, but they did nothing to prevent its use in patients…. Read more

Court documents revealed a DePuy study of the ASR that showed the device can fail at nearly a 40 percent rate after only five years…. Read more

A woman received permission from Ireland’s High Court to sue DePuy over its defective ASR device. It is the first such lawsuit in that country…. Read more

An article in the respected medical journal Lancet advises orthopedists not to perform hip resurfacing procedures in women…. Read more

The Australian government has advised its citizens who have undergone hip replacement surgery to have their all-metal implants checked regularly for problems…. Read more

The New Jersey multicounty litigation court has ordered the parties to begin the DePuy hip bellwether trial process for trials in September and October of 2013…. Read more

Australia’s artificial joint registry’s annual report finds that most of the growth in revision procedures was attributable to DePuy’s ASR hip replacements…. Read more

A recent study conducted at the University of Iowa suggests that thigh size could determine the success of a hip replacement procedure in larger patients…. Read more

The first DePuy ASR hip trials will occur in Nevada and Maryland state courts this winter, and the first federal trials will begin in May 2013…. Read more

Researchers in a recent British Medical Journal article found that the metal-on-metal hip replacement cancer link might be lower than previously believed…. Read more