A blue plaque has been unveiled in memory of the man who carried out the world's first hip replacement operation more than ...

Although infection after hip replacement surgery is relatively rare (around 1 in 100), the impact on patients' lives can be devastating. A new website and toolkit have been developed to help health ...

I'm an orthopedic surgeon and we're about to perform a total hip replacement for a patient ... to an implant we take extra precautions in surgery. We wear astronaut suits so that we do not ...

Other authors have noted greater difficulty when treating periprosthetic hip infections when drug-resistant pathogenic organisms, such as MRSA, are identified. [6,14,23,24] In 2008, Pulido et al.

There isn’t an age requirement for hip replacement surgery, however, most people who receive the surgery are between 50 and 80 years old.

Mary regards herself as "lucky," and her left hand is the only visual reminder of what she suffered. In more recent times, ...

Overall, 9% of patients who had been assigned to total hip replacement had not undergone surgery at six months, and 21% of those who had been assigned to resistance training had undergone total ...

Charles P. Hannon, M.D., an orthopedic surgeon with the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, was honored with the American ...