Power Morcellator Injuries

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...