With tech, you pretty much know that each new generation of smart phone or laptop is going to be better: faster processing, better screen resolution, more apps -- more of everything. Medical care doesn't work that way. ...more
Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a safety communication to remind patients and health care providers that the safety and effectiveness of robotically-assisted surgical (RAS) devices for use in...more
Thanks to defective hernia mesh implants, not all hernia repair surgeries go as planned. The patients who received defective mesh often end up in worse shape than they were before surgery and, sometimes, have to undergo an...more
Angry women, anxious that officials were failing to protect their health, besieged a federal Food and Drug Administration hearing in the spring. That unusual outcry may have helped push regulators off their bureaucratic...more
Uncle Sam has paid what critics have called long overdue attention to women’s breasts and how surgeons and diagnosticians treat them....more
Searcy Denney is representing clients who have been implanted with the Short Modular Femoral Hip System and Modular REDAPT from Smith & Nephew in lawsuits alleging that the manufacturer failed to warn them of the risks...more