A hip replacement made by Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)’s DePuy unit fails in the U.K. as often as 49 percent of the time, or four times what the company cited in recalling the device last year, a British orthopedists’ group said. The British Orthopaedic Association and the British Hip Society said in a statement this week [...]

It was a difficult year in 2010 for giant drug provider Johnson & Johnson. After facing several class action law suits over recalled children’s medications, the problems continue this week as an announcement has been made public of a recall of commonly used OTC drugs, after a problem with quality control in their McNeil manufacturing [...]

Shares of Smith & Nephew surged on the London Stock Exchange on Monday, getting a boost from a report that the medical device maker had rejected a £7 billion, or $10.9 billion, takeover bid by Johnson & Johnson. On Saturday, the city editor of Sky News, Mark Kleinman, wrote on his blog that Johnson & Johnson had approached [...]

The appeal, or petition for reconsideration, is a rarely used part of the PMA process that companies can pursue when their device application is denied by one of the centers within FDA. As part of the appeals process, CDRH issued a denial letter, which EES received on October 26, 2010. The next step is for [...]

Pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson is facing a multi-million-pound legal claim after thousands of British patients were told that their hip replacement operations will need to be reversed. Many patients have been in excruciating pain – with some unable to walk – since having the operation, and now some of those affected are preparing a [...]

(Reuters) – A moldy odor has again stricken Johnson & Johnson’s Tylenol, and the company is recalling another lot of the over-the-counter painkiller. J&J, which has recalled tens of millions of bottles of Tylenol and other consumer medicines in the past year because of complaints of a musty or moldy odor in the product, said [...]

Medical device makers Medtronic Inc., Johnson & Johnson and Stryker Corp. face new safety rules under a revamped program laid out by U.S. regulators that may help speed approval of products from condoms to CT scanners. The Food and Drug Administration released the proposed new requirements for the so-called 510(k) program that covers products similar to previously approved devices, [...]

CINCINNATI, Feb. 19 /PRNewswire/ — Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc., a Johnson & Johnson company, announced today that it has reached an agreement with Hologic, Inc., and Hologic subsidiary Suros Surgical Systems, Inc., settling litigation in Ohio and dismissing pending cases in Delaware. The disputes involved patents relating to the Ethicon Endo-Surgery MAMMOTOME Breast Biopsy System, and [...]