Are J&J shooting themselves in the hip?

This study seems like suicide to me,” he said in a 2005 e-mail. Flett testified that he likened such a study to suicide because “it will prove that one is better than the other and they are both our products and that means one will be worse.” He said DePuy stopped selling the ASR in late 2009. “We didn’t see the sales of the product continuing the way we wanted, so we took it off the market,” Flett said. Kransky’s lawyers claim the implanted metal cups didn’t stimulate ingrowth of surrounding bone, making them unstable in the hip. They also claim the shallow design of the ASR cups, in which a metal ball atop the femur rotates, led to toxic debris of cobalt and chromium ions in the bloodstream. J&J, based in New Brunswick, New Jersey, recalled the hip devices after saying U.K. data showed the ASR failed in more than 12 percent of patients after five years. A lawyer for Kransky, Michael Kelly, told jurors in his opening statement that internal J&J documents show 37 percent of ASR hips failed after 4.6 years. Montana Physician After Samaras testified, jurors heard by videotape from Daniel C. Brooke, a physician who practices in Kransky’s home state of Montana. He testified about examining Kransky and discussing a surgery to replace the ASR hip he had implanted in December 2007. Kransky, a retired prison guard, had a so-called revision surgery to remove the device in February 2012. Brooke said that Kransky’s levels of chromium and cobalt debris were “...
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