FDA Sees Surge in Complaints About All-Metal Hips

The New York Times reports on its front page, ?The federal government has received a surge in complaints in recent months about failed hip replacements,? totaling ?more than 5,000 reports since January about?.metal-on-metal hips.? The complaints are chiefly that an all-metal hip has had to be replaced ?after only a few years,? and ?some patients have suffered crippling injuries caused by tiny particles of cobalt and chromium that the metal devices shed as they wear.? As a result, ?the FDA in May ordered producers to study how frequently the devices were failing and to examine the threat to patients.? Now metal hips have ?plummeted to about 5 percent of the market.? One problem identified by the FDA?s Dr. William Maisel is, ?There is not an existing infrastructure for studying this kind of information.?

From the American Association for Justice news release.

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