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NEW YORK — Bradley Little, a physical education teacher in Arizona, was leading his class through a school hallway in 2017 when he collapsed. Little feared he was having a stroke. Or, in a sign of the ...

Hip implants with a delta ceramic or oxidized zirconium head and highly crosslinked polyethylene liner or cup had the lowest risk of revision during the 15 years after surgery, a new study has found.

Prosthetic joints are usually fabricated from medical-grade metals, such as titanium and ceramics. However, despite major advances in replacement hip bones made from such materials, there always ...

Research published in the Value in Health journal from the hip implant prosthesis study at the University of Bristol Medical School in the United Kingdom identified the most cost-effective implants ...

Modern hip replacements are nearly twice as likely as older hip replacements to last at least 25 years, suggests a study ...

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has issued a device safety alert on Profemur cobalt chrome (CoCr) modular neck hip replacements. The agency warned of significantly ...

This prompted her to opt for hip replacement. Dr Rajeev Joshi, senior hip and knee replacement surgeon at Sancheti Hospital, Pune, performed the bilateral hip replacements, first in 2009 and then in ...