Stryker Hip Implant News Archive

Stryker Ceramic Hip Replacements Making Noise - The Squeaky Hip
-InjuryBoard.com
05/31/2008- Although an artificial hip can occasionally make a variety of noises, until Stryker, a medical products company, began marketing its ceramic hip replacements, squeaking was rare. With the advent of these ceramic hip replacements, however, hundreds of patients using the product have discovered that their hips are making squeaking noises very frequently. More>>>

Reports of Squeaky Hip Implants Growing
-NewsInferno.com
05/28/2008- More patients are complaining of squeaky hip replacement implants. As recently as 2006, the American Association of Orthopedic Surgeons called the recently emerging hip squeaking phenomenon an “underreported medical trend that has stumped the medical community.” More>>>

Squeaky artificial hips baffle surgeons
- Bucks County Courier Times
05/25/2008- A constant creaking like a loose floorboard isn’t a sound Dr. Andy Star anticipates hearing when people enter his examination room. So the first time he saw a patient with a squeaky artificial hip, he was left dumbfounded. More>>>

Squeaking Hips – Is It Grandpa’s Ceramic Hip?
-InjuryBoard.com
05/16/2008- Artificial hips have a basic design: a socket implanted in the pelvis, into which a spherical head is fitted. A spike is attached to the head which his driven into the femur, or thigh bone for anchorage. More>>>

Can You Hear Me Now? Yes, We Heard Your Hip Squeak.
-InjuryBoard.com
05/14/2008- Another report appears in the New York Times today relaying stories of hip implant patients whose implants are causing embarrassing problems because they squeak. More>>>

Stryker Corp. Trident Hip Replacement Blamed for Epidemic of Squeaky Hips.
-NewsInferno.com
05/13/2008- A growing number of hip replacement patients - especially those with Stryker Corp’s Tridentcomponents - are experiencing squeaky hips. More>>>

That Must Be Bob. I Hear His New Hip Squeaking.
-TheNewYorkTimes
05/11/2008- The first time John L. Johnson’s artificial hip squeaked, he was bending down to pick up a pine cone in his yard in Thomasville, Ga. Mr. Johnson looked up, expecting to find an animal nearby. More>>>

Stryker’s Quality Control Effort to Cost Millions
-FDA News
05/02/2008 -  As Stryker’s hip implant franchise took a $15 million to $20 million hit last quarter due to a recall and temporary production stoppage of its implantable hip cups, the company is spending millions of dollars instituting a corporatewide quality control program meant to resolve two FDA warning letters. More>>>

U.S. government examining doctor kickbacks for medical devices

-International Herald Tribune
03/26/2008 -  The U.S. government is turning the spotlight on doctors in a long-running investigation into suspected kickback payments to hip and knee surgeons made by the orthopedic device industry. More>>>

New Focus of Inquiry Into Bribes: Doctors
-NY Times
03/22/2008 -  A long-running federal investigation into the orthopedic device industry’s suspected kickback payments to hip and knee surgeons now has the doctors in the spotlight. More>>>

Hip bones and hip pockets

-TheAge.com

03/13/2008 -  REVELATIONS that US investigations into kickbacks paid to senior surgeons by giant US medical device companies Stryker and Zimmer may extend to Australia should be deeply troubling for patients, health institution managers and policy makers in this country. More>>>

Artificial hips recalled after patient woes

-TheAge.com

03/13/2008 -  MEDICAL device giant Stryker has issued a voluntary global recall for two hip implant components after US health authorities found it failed to act on patient claims the products caused bone fractures and required corrective surgery. More>>>

Money trail in US medical devices investigation leads to Melbourne
-TheAge.com
03/11/2008 - MEDICAL device companies that are among the biggest financial donors to Melbourne's top hospitals are being investigated by US authorities over payments to doctors in return for the exclusive use of their products. More>>>

Stryker Hip Implant Recall, Warning Letters Point to Serious Problems

-Newsinferno.com

02/05/2008 - Stryker Corp. issued a recall of its Trident Hip Implants last month, just days after the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) posted a warning letter on its website chastising Stryker for deficiencies at its New Jersey manufacturing plant.  The Stryker hip implant components involved in the January recall were manufactured at the company’s manufacturing facility in Ireland, which was also the subject of an FDA warning letter earlier this year. More>>>