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Search Results for: Ethicon

Ethicon launches next-gen surgical stapler

June 6, 2022 By Chris Newmarker

Johnson & Johnson’s Ethicon today announced the U.S. launch of its next-gen Echelon 3000 stapler. The Echelon 3000 is digitally-enabled and provides surgeons with simple, one-handed powered articulation, according to the Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) company. The surgical stapler’s creators designed it with 39% greater jaw aperture and a 27% greater articulation span. The idea […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, News Well, Surgical Tagged With: Ethicon, Johnson & Johnson

FDA clears J&J’s Ethicon’s Monarch surgical robot for urology procedures

May 2, 2022 By Sean Whooley

Johnson & Johnson MedTech (NYSE:JNJ) company Ethicon announced today that its Monarch robotic surgery platform received FDA 510(k) clearance. Ethicon’s Auris Health subsidiary received the FDA clearance for Monarch for endourological procedures. Company officials say it’s now the first and only multispecialty, flexible robotic solution for use in both bronchoscopy and urology. The company said […]

Filed Under: 510(k), Business/Financial News, Featured, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), News Well, Regulatory/Compliance, Robotics, Surgical, Urology Tagged With: aurishealth, Ethicon, Johnson & Johnson, robot-assisted, surgical robotics

Ethicon launches curved jaw tissue sealer

June 21, 2021 By Sean Whooley

Ethicon — part of Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) — announced today that it launched the Enseal X1 curved jaw tissue sealer. Ethicon developed the Enseal as a new advanced bipolar energy device designed to increase procedural efficiency and provide stronger sealing and better access to more tissue than Medtronic’s LigaSure Maryland, according to a news […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, Surgical Tagged With: Ethicon, Johnson & Johnson

J&J’s Ethicon touts surgical stapler study

August 6, 2020 By Chris Newmarker

Ethicon — part of Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) — is highlighting new study results in which its Echelon powered stapler with gripping surface technology (GST) had a lower rate of bleeding-related complications than a competing Medtronic product. Ethicon funded the peer-reviewed study, which appears online in Medical Devices: Evidence and Research. The study compared the Echelon […]

Filed Under: Surgical Tagged With: Ethicon, Johnson & Johnson, Medtronic

J&J’s Ethicon wins FDA breakthrough nod for microwave ablation tech

August 3, 2020 By Sean Whooley

Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) subsidiary Ethicon announced that it received FDA breakthrough device designation for its microwave ablation technology. The transbronchial microwave ablation technology, which is currently under development, utilizes robotic-assisted bronchoscopy. Johnson & Johnson’s acquisitions of NeuWave Medical and Auris Health allowed the company to bring the robotic surgical and microwave ablation technology together to […]

Filed Under: Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Oncology, Regulatory/Compliance, Robotics, Surgical Tagged With: aurishealth, Ethicon, FDA, Johnson and Johnson, NeuWave Medical Inc.

J&J’s Ethicon wins lawsuit over hernia mesh

March 9, 2020 By Nancy Crotti

A New Jersey appeals court has thrown out a lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) and its Ethicon unit because the woman who had mesh implanted to correct a hernia could not identify its manufacturer. Plaintiffs Deborah Kline and her husband, Jeffrey Derstine, sued the companies in 2014, alleging that the polypropylene mesh implanted in Kline’s […]

Filed Under: Featured, Legal News Tagged With: Ethicon, hernia mesh, Johnson & Johnson

J&J’s Ethicon mostly fends off Intuitive Surgical’s robotic surgery patent challenge

February 21, 2020 By Chris Newmarker

Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) subsidiary Ethicon has kept most of a surgical robotics tool patent intact after a Patent Trial and Appeal Board decision on a challenge from rival Intuitive Surgical (NSDQ:ISRG). The board’s decision, dated Feb. 18, involved an Ethicon patent for a “Shiftable Drive Interface for Robotically-Controlled Surgical Tool,” issued in 2013. Out of […]

Filed Under: Featured, Legal News, Patent Infringement, Robotics, Surgical Tagged With: Ethicon, Intuitive Surgical, Johnson & Johnson, Johnson and Johnson

J&J’s Ethicon defeats all but 4 claims in Kentucky pelvic mesh case

January 10, 2020 By Nancy Crotti

A federal judge in Kentucky has dismissed all but four claims in a pelvic mesh lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson’s (NYSE:JNJ) Ethicon division. Jensesta Cutter had Ethicon’s Prolift pelvic mesh implanted in 2006 and complained to her doctor that year of pelvic pain, soreness and burning, constipation and urine leakage, according to the complaint. In […]

Filed Under: Featured, Gynecological, Legal News, Product Liability, Women's Health Tagged With: Ethicon, Johnson & Johnson, Pelvic Mesh Lawsuits

J&J’s Ethicon gets to substitute 20 new claims on surgical stapler patent

December 5, 2019 By Nancy Crotti

Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) may file new claims in a surgical stapler patent case brought by Intuitive Surgical (NSDQ:ISRG) against J&J’s Ethicon unit. The original patent was granted in 2015. Ethicon sued Intuitive in Delaware in 2017,  alleging that with the EndoWrist stapler Intuitive developed for its da Vinci robot-assisted surgery platform, Intuitive violates seven Ethicon […]

Filed Under: Legal News, Patent Infringement, Surgical Tagged With: Intuitive Surgical, Johnson and Johnson

J&J’s Ethicon launches Vistaseal fibrin sealant

December 3, 2019 By Sean Whooley

Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) subsidiary Ethicon announced today that it launched its Vistaseal fibrin sealant for managing bleeding during surgery. The sealant system is indicated as an adjunct to hemostasis for mild to moderate bleeding in adults undergoing surgery when control of bleeding by standard techniques (suture, ligature, cautery) are ineffective or impractical. Get the full story at […]

Filed Under: Blood Management, Business/Financial News, Drug-Device Combinations Tagged With: Ethicon, Johnson and Johnson

Ethicon recalls Echelon Flex Endopath staplers

October 31, 2019 By Sean Whooley

Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) subsidiary Ethicon yesterday issued a Class I recall of its Echelon Flex Endopath staplers after the product failed to completely form staples. Ethicon recalled the devices due to an out-of-specification component within the jaw of the stapler in some devices, which could lead to malformed staplers. If a problem isn’t recognized or addressed, […]

Filed Under: Featured, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Lab Instruments & Supplies, Recalls, Surgical Tagged With: Ethicon, FDA, Johnson and Johnson

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