A recently released study concludes that the FDA should “abandon” its present system for approving U.S. medical devices such as the because it fails to ensure patient safety.

Currently the FDA employs a streamlined approach to approve medical device applications such as those for the beleaguered DePuy knee and hip parts – a process that takes 10 months as opposed to several years.

However, this quick process is unreliable. As the result of a faulty or inadequate screening process, many patients with medical devices have found themselves harmed by medical devices, implanted with recalled items that require additional, painful and sometimes dangerous surgeries.

One patient who required revision surgery to fix a recalled DePuy Hip part states, “You put your faith in the doctor and the companies that make these products because they’re the experts…It’s just beyond me to think that things can get approved that don’t really work” reports ABC News.

Unfortunately, faulty medical devices are placed in patients at an alarming rate. A study from the National Research Center for Women and families found that more than 437 million devices were recalled in 2010 due to fears that they might kill and permanently harm patients.

Grocery store chain H-E-B has issued a recall of store brand cottage cheese, dips, yogurt and sour cream sold between June 18 and July 26. The products, sold in 8-ounce, 16-ounce, 24-ounce and 32-ounce sizes, were recalled due to the possible presence of “foreign material.” There have been no reports of injuries associated with the recall products.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced a recall of 77,000 electric baseboard and fan heater thermostats imported by Honeywell International Inc. The agency reported that the thermostats can overheat and begin to smoke and burn. There have been 16 reports of the thermostats melting but no injuries occurred.

Starbucks Coffee Co. has expanded its recall of boxed sandwich products at the request of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The initial recall, issued earlier this month, covered the Starbucks Chipotle Chicken Wraps Bistro Box and the Starbucks Chicken & Hummus Bistro Box, while the expanded recall also includes the Starbucks Salumi and Cheese Bistro Box and the Starbucks Chicken Lettuce Wraps Bistro Box. The affected products were only sold in Alabama and Georgia.

Ross Stores Inc. has issued a recall of 1,200 Acacia chairs after it was discovered they might collapse when weight is put on them. The products were sold at Ross stores across the country between March and May of this year. The company has received five reports of chairs breaking, including four minor injuries.

A U.S. Army reservist in Iowa has filed a lawsuit against the city of Altoona, Iowa, after he was acquitted of a 2005 hit-and-run murder in a local Lowes parking lot. The lawsuit accused police officers of “unilaterally excluding hundreds of other vehicles that more nearly matched the description of the vehicle that purportedly struck decedent” during their investigation. The plaintiff claims he was arrested without probable cause and that his arrest caused “humiliation, anxiety, loss of sleep, severe mental and emotional distress, legal bills and ‘exposure to public hatred, contempt and ridicule’.”

The city of San Diego has agreed to a $500,000 settlement in a lawsuit filed over an off-duty police shooting of a young boy in 2008. The boy was shot once in the leg during a “road rage” altercation between his mother, who had been driving drunk, and an off-duty officer. The lawsuit was filed by the boy’s father, who was stationed in Iraq at the time of the incident.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced a recall of 40,000 pressure washer surface cleaner attachments sold at the Home Depot. Manufactured by Homelite, the agency said the attachments “can break at the nozzle and potentially strike a consumer.” There have been nine reports of the attachments breaking, including one laceration injury.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced a recall of about 800 Uvex Funride ski helmets that do no adequately protect the user’s head. The company said that the helmets provide “insufficient shock absorption and resistance to penetration.” The helmets were sold at independent ski shops across the country between January 2009 and April 2011.

A Pennsylvania jury has awarded $500,000 to a Middleton, Penn., woman after a nurse at Lower Bucks Hospital left a sponge in her abdomen during a cesarean-section delivery. The plaintiff experienced abdominal pain after her procedure, which was initially thought to be simply post-procedure discomfort. It was not until two months after the surgery, the suit claims, that the sponge was discovered when the woman was forced back into the hospital with severe stomach pain.