• Over 1,000 DePuy A.S.R. lawsuits have been filed against Johnson & Johnson. For the backstory on the defects with these artificial hips, click here and here.

• An entire issue of the Spine Journal is devoted to conflicts of interest in Medtronic-funded studies; furor may force Medtronic to sell off its spinal device business.

• Professor Bernabe on why we don’t need the learned intermediary doctrine. More Bernabe here, on the absurdity of statutes of repose in medical malpractice cases.

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