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View ArticleMan Sues Heart-Valve Maker for Wife's Death
The husband of a Northwest Side woman, who died after having a mechanical valve implanted in her heart last year, is suing the manufacturer of the device, claiming leaks in the valve led to her death....
View ArticleSilver-Coated Heart Valves Recalled
A U.S.-based company has recalled all implants of a new type of heart valve because the silver coating intended to reduce heart infections may cause the valve to leak. St. Jude Medical Inc. of...
View ArticleSt. Jude Medical, Inc. Recalls Heart Valve Products with Silzone Coating
St. Jude Medical, Inc. announced today that on January 21 it had initiated a worldwide voluntary recall involving all products that have Silzone® coating. These products have a silver coating applied...
View ArticleLawsuit filed against St. Jude Medical
The first personal injury lawsuit in Minnesota involving defective Silzone heart valves was filed in Ramsey County District Court, State of Minnesota, against St. Jude Medical Inc. of Little Canada....
View ArticleSt. Jude Medical Lawsuit Will Soon Face Critical Juncture
A battle to turn 37 individual product liability lawsuits filed in federal court against Little Canada-based St. Jude Medical Inc. into a class-action suit will head to court this fall. It will be a...
View ArticleCanadians Put At Risk With Medical Implants
Some Canadians who depend on implanted medical devices say Health Canada doesn't do enough to warn them of the dangers of some of these devices. Two devices have come under scrutiny: a heart valve that...
View ArticleMechanical Heart Valve Patients Try For Class Action Status
When 59-year-old Sharon Frost received her mechanical heart valves in 1998, she believed it would help her heart condition. Now five years later she finds it difficult to breathe, walk and spend time...
View ArticleHusband Sues Over Wife's Death
A British man has begun legal proceedings against the American manufacturers of a heart valve he claims contributed to the death of his wife. Myrtle McCombe, 44, of Cookstown, Northern Ireland, died on...
View ArticleUS Pacemaker Manufacturer Faces British Lawsuit
St Jude Medical, a major manufacturer of heart valves and pacemakers, is to face a lawsuit in Britain over its Silzone heart valves, which were discontinued after a recall in January 2000. The...
View ArticleHeart Valve Patients Can Sue Maker: Judge
An Ontario judge has ruled that Canadians who received certain silver-coated heart valves can sue the company that made them. Silzone mechanical heart valves, by St. Jude Medical, were coated in...
View ArticleJudge Allows Valve Case Against St. Jude To Proceed
A judge's ruling will allow a class-action lawsuit over a defective heart valve to proceed against St. Jude Medical Inc., even though federal regulators approved the device.U.S. District Judge John...
View ArticleSt. Jude Served with FDA Warning Letter
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sent a warning letter this week to St. Jude Medical Inc. because of faulty manufacturing practices at its catheter manufacturing plant in Minnetonka,...
View ArticleLawsuits Allege Medtronic, Other Firms Illegally Marketed Surgical Ablation...
Medtronic Inc., St. Jude Medical Inc., AtriCure Inc. and Boston Scientific Corp. all allegedly paid kickbacks to doctors in order to convince them to use their surgical ablation products to treat the...
View ArticleFeds Seek to Join St. Jude Whistleblower Lawsuit
St. Jude Medical Inc. is facing scrutiny from the US Justice Department over an alleged kickback scheme. According to a Reuters report, the US Attorneys Office in Boston is seeking to intervene in a...
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