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• Morcellator Cancer Risk Controversy Highlights Weak Reporting System: GAO

  February 15, 2017

  Irvin Jackson

  A GAO report indicates that the FDA's adverse reporting system and its voluntary nature may have delayed the agency from detecting heightened cancer risks linked to the use of power morcellators.

• FDA Issues New Guidance On When To Warn Public About Medical Device Problems

  December 14, 2016

  Irvin Jackson

  The FDA has issued new guidance determining when the public should be warned about adverse events linked to medical devices already on the market.

• Laparoscopic Morcellation May Carry Higher Cancer Risks For Women Over 50: Study

  December 2, 2016

  Irvin Jackson

  A new study warns that women over 50 may be more vulnerable to leiomyosarcoma cancer risks linked to the use of power morcellators.

• New Olympus Morcellator Safer, But Not For Women With Suspected Cancer, Company Warns

  November 18, 2016

  Austin Kirk

  Olympus has received approval for a new morcellator equipped with a tissue containment bag, amid concerns that morcellators can spread cancerous cells throughout a woman's body.

• Declining Morcellator Use Has Not Led To Increased Hysterectomy Complications: Study

  August 24, 2016

  Irvin Jackson

  Researchers have seen no increase in hysterectomy complications as the medical community walks back from power morcellator use over cancer fears, according to a new study.

• MDL Judge Recommends Remand of Remaining Lawsuits Over Ethicon Morcellators

  July 12, 2016

  Austin Kirk

  A federal judge is calling for the remaining few Ethicon morcellator cancer lawsuits that have not been settled to be returned to their original court districts for trial or other resolutions.

• Motion Filed to Dissolve Ethicon Morcellator MDL Following Settlement of Most Cases

  June 6, 2016

  Austin Kirk

  With most Ethicon morcellator cancer lawsuits resolved, parties have asked a federal judge to dissolve the multidistrict litigation formed to handle the pretrial proceedings.

• Uterine Cancer Spread By LiNA XCise Morcellator, Lawsuit Claims

  April 29, 2016

  Irvin Jackson

  A power morcellator lawsuit filed against LiNA Medical indicates that its XCise Laparoscopic Morcellator spread cancerous cells through a woman's body during a hysterectomy procedure.

• Laparoscopic Hysterectomy Cancer Risk May Be Reduced by Morcellator Tissue Containment System

  April 8, 2016

  Austin Kirk

  The FDA has approved the first morcellation tissue containment system to collect tissue that may contain cancerous cells, but warn that the device is not proven to prevent the spread of uterine cancer through morcellation.

• Lawsuit Filed Over Leiomyosarcoma Death Allegedly Caused by Ethicon Morcellator

  March 22, 2016

  Irvin Jackson

  Johnson & Johnson and it's Ethicon division face a wrongful death lawsuit by a man who says his wife died of leiomyosarcoma that was allegedly spread and upstaged by a power morcellator.