Power Morcellator Injuries & Lawsuits

New proposed legislation that would require doctors to report potentially serious problems with medical devices to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration was inspired by the use of a women’s surgical tool at the center of a number of lawsuits.The “Medical Device Guardian’s Act,” proposed in June by House...

The laproscopic power morcellator is just the latest in a long line of medical devices that have wound up doing far more harm than good – and that were given rapid and ill-advised approval by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). That same federal agency finally issued a...