Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Ceramic-on-ceramic bearings have shown excellent long-term outcomes, with no osteolysis or adverse biological ...

WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration approved the premarket approval application of Stryker Howmedica Osteonics’ patented Trident ceramic acetabular insert. The approval makes this ceramic-on ...

PRAGUE — Rates of audible squeaking are higher in uncemented ceramic-on-ceramic bearings used in total hip replacement than in ceramic-on-ceramic hybrid bearings, new research shows. There is wide ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - There is not much hard evidence that new artificial joint devices, including ceramic-on-ceramic bearings for hip replacement and high flexion knee replacement, are better ...

Recent improvements in joint replacement devices may not be worth the risk, according to a systematic review published online September 9 in the BMJ. The authors found no evidence to recommend 5 newer ...

TONICA, Ill. (AP) David Nagel was determined to play through his bad hip and push his sunken bowling average back into the 180s. But the 55-year-old Tonica man had underestimated the arthritis that ...

When it comes to arthritis in the hip joint, patients no longer have to grin and bear it. Instead, hip implants replace damaged natural bearing surfaces with artificial ones in order to alleviate pain ...

While it's not uncommon for older people to get total hip replacements, doctors now often go with hip resurfacing implants for younger patients who have conditions such as osteoarthritis. The devices ...