Medical Device Researchers Recommend Coordinated Metal-On-Metal Implant Studies

BOSTON — The New England Journal of Medicine has published a critique of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s current metal-on-metal hip implant surveillance in its June 20 issue, along with recommendations for consideration at the June 27 and 28 public meeting of Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Devices Panel of the Medical Devices Advisory Committee in Washington, D.C.

The perspective offered by Joshua P. Rising, M.D., M.P.H. of the Pew Health Group, Ian S. Reynolds, M.P.H., and Art Sedrakyan, M.D., Ph.D., of Weill Cornell Medical College includes criticism of delays and recommendations to facilitate a coordinated review of postsurgical outcomes for …