Johnson & Johnson suspended sales of its Ethicon morcellation devices in April. Power morcellator manufacturers could soon face a new wave of regulatory scrutiny, as the FDA will convene in July to ...

In late 2013, media coverage of power morcellators, a tool used during laparoscopic hysterectomies, drew attention to the controversy around the device. Patient advocates say that use of morcellators ...

Last November, the FDA ramped up its oversight of power morcellator devices, recommending against using the tools in most women undergoing a hysterectomy or uterine fibroid removal after finding that ...

Nearly 50 doctors across the United States sent an open letter to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday calling on the agency to “revise or rescind” its position on a controversial device ...

Lawsuit is one of dozens against makers of device used in minimally invasive gynecologic surgery Power morcellator device can spread hidden cancer Second NJ case to name same device maker, hospital ...

(CN) – After his wife died last month of occult cancer, a North Carolina man has filed a federal lawsuit against the makers of a medical device that he says spread tumors in her body. Jerry Woodell ...

The FDA underestimated harmful effects of a surgical device initially approved for use in 1991, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office. The FDA had received reports since at ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The FBI is investigating Johnson and Johnson, one of America's largest pharmaceutical companies, and a surgical instrument it makes known as the power morcellator. The feds want to ...

Dr. Amy Reed, an anesthesiologist and patient-safety advocate, died in May 2017 after a four-year battle with leiomyosarcoma of the uterus. The cancer was spread by a power morcellator, the medical ...

The woman whose gynecologic surgery led her and her husband on a mission against a particular surgical instrument has died. Dr. Amy Reed had undiagnosed uterine cancer worsened by the use of a power ...