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An additional 2.7 million potentially defective Takata airbag inflators have been added to the Takata airbag recall by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The addition brings the nation’s largest auto recall to a total of 42 million vehicles and nearly 70 million airbags. This news comes as Honda has confirmed with the NHTSA […] Read More
In early May, a Missouri jury ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay more than $110 million to a Virginia woman who claimed she developed ovarian cancer after four decades of using Johnson & Johnson’s talc-based products for female hygiene.The woman claimed the products, Shower to Shower and Baby Powder, caused her to develop ovarian cancer […] Read More
Between 1991 and 2014, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved 25 surgical power morcellator devices that could spread undetected uterine cancer in women, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO).The defective medical devices, which are used in minimally invasive laparoscopic surgeries to cut up tissue so it can be removed […] Read More
Last week, a Dallas federal jury awarded a more than $1 billion verdict to six plaintiffs who were seriously injured by defective Pinnacle hip implants manufactured by Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiary DePuy Orthopaedics Inc. The jurors determined that the metal-on-metal implants were defective in design and that the manufacturers failed to warn consumers […] Read More
On September 30, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) confirmed that the death of a 50-year-old woman was linked to a defective Takata airbag. This brings the total number of U.S. Takata related fatalities to 11.The woman was driving a 2001 Honda Civic in Riverside County, California, when her vehicle collided with a pickup […] Read More
General Motors (GM) has requested that U.S. safety regulators delay by one year the recall of almost one million vehicles equipped with defective Takata airbags.The auto manufacturer claims that many of the models targeted for recalls have not shown the same risks that prompted the recall of millions of vehicles nationwide.Takata airbags pose a dangerous […] Read More
In 2014, the FDA warned that power morcellators used in minimally invasive surgeries like hysterectomies could spread cancer tissue through the body. A recent study indicates that the use of these devices declined significantly after the FDA issued its warning.At the time, advocates for the power morcellator argued that an increase in hysterectomy complications would […] Read More
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has issued an urgent warning to owners of more than 300,000 Honda and Acura vehicles advising them to stop driving their vehicles until the defective Takata airbags have been replaced.A new round of tests found that some vehicles posed a much higher threat for violent explosions than previously […] Read More

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