I used to be that annoying person who prided myself on never going to the doctor, who relished my apparent immunity to whatever lurgy was doing the rounds. Covid? Never caught it. In fact, I rarely ...

Hip replacement surgery, or hip arthroplasty, is a common procedure that can improve mobility and decrease pain in a hip joint that's no longer functioning properly. The American College ...

Patients with morbid obesity undergoing robotically assisted hip replacement faced a dramatically increased likelihood of prosthetic joint infections (PJIs), a researcher said here. Among patients in ...

It's estimated that thousands of NHS joint replacement operations could be cancelled due to a shortage of vital bone cement. A statement released by the health body's supply chain department last ...

Orthopedic surgeon Dr. William A. Tyndall talks with Van Zandt VA Medical Center Chief of Staff Dr. Angela W. Rowe after the VA’s first outpatient joint replacement Tuesday. Mirror photo by Patrick ...

For longtime local Bill Smaine, the mountains have always felt like home. A former competitive skier from New Hampshire, Bill moved to Lake Tahoe in 1985 after landing a ski coaching job at Heavenly ...

Mark Wilkinson receives funding from Arthritis UK, Medical Research Council, UKRI, and the Health Quality Improvement Partnership. Around 117,000 people living in England and Wales had a hip ...

Among individuals with medial compartment knee osteoarthritis, those who underwent partial knee replacement demonstrated clinical outcomes and rates of reoperation and revision comparable to those who ...

Whether partial versus total arthroplasty is the best for patients with unicompartmental osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee has long been debated. The so-called TOPKAT trial randomized patients to the ...

As populations continue to age, total hip replacement (THR) is becoming an increasingly common surgical procedure. Experts estimate that approximately one million THRs are performed each year ...