TY - JOUR AB - Biomedical Safety & Standards Concise, accurate news reports for medical device safety professionals BS&S FEATURE September 15, 2017 Volume 47 Johnson & Johnson Faces Mesh Device Number 16 Lawsuits on Three Continents, Accusations IN THIS ISSUE of Data Suppression Recalls & Field Corrections—Class I Courts in the United States, Canada, France, and Australia are contending Oscor ATAR Reusable and with more than 50,000 individual lawsuits Disposable Extension and class action suits over a device Johnson Cables ............................. 121 & Johnson (J&J) pulled from the market Penumbra 3D Revascularization 5 years ago. Device ............................. 123 LeadCare Blood Lead J&J is alleged to have failed to test its line Testing Systems .............. 124 of vaginal mesh implants—instead using unsuspecting patients as experimental models Recalls & Field and marketing the device aggressively to Corrections—Class II physicians as a fast and cheap way to handle Alaris PC Unit ................ 124 a common maternal complication of childbirth. Roth Mobeli Grab Handles .......................... 124 New revelations emerged in July 2017 that J&J’s subsidiary Ethicon tried to Sterilmed Catheter suppress a report by French health authorities warning against implantation of Cables ............................. 125 its implant. In a class action lawsuit by Australian women, federal court in TI - Penumbra 3D Revascularization Device JF - Biomedical Safety & Standards DO - 10.1097/01.BMSAS.0000524617.02558.d7 DA - 2017-09-15 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wolters-kluwer-health/penumbra-3d-revascularization-device-HbG5Dm5OmS SP - 123 EP - 124 VL - 47 IS - 16 DP - DeepDyve ER -