Arthritis Care Research News Alerts. 2007;57(2):327-334. Obese patients tend to have a higher prevalence of total hip replacements due to a higher incidence of hip osteoarthritis. This is of ...

Since caries diagnosis or dental implant placement occurring a year before or after total hip arthroplasty (THA) were tied with increased complications and more, it may be advisable to delay invasive ...

People planning on getting an operation such as heart surgery or hip or knee replacement might want to first consult a new report from a Pennsylvania agency. The report from the Pennsylvania Health ...

Hip replacement surgery, also called total hip arthroplasty, involves removing damaged bone and cartilage in your hip and replacing it with artificial parts. During a total hip replacement, your ...

Total hip arthroplasty (THA) – or hip replacement – is one of the most widely performed surgical procedures in the United States. It is used to manage severe arthritis and can greatly improve quality ...

This story has been updated to reflect new information. The scene at Brookfield Zoo was a tribute to medical science, to cooperation on behalf of endangered animals and, especially, to anesthesiology.

The typical length of stay in hospital after hip replacement and knee replacement procedures has decreased over the last decade from about four days to under two days. "It's early in the trend, but ...

Parkinson's disease, osteoarthritis, rheumatic diseases, alcoholism and mental health disorders increase the risk of surgical complications after a hip fracture surgery, a new Finnish study analyzing ...

Arthritis & Rheumatism. 2008;57(7):1915-1920. From blood clots to heart attack, cardiovascular complications are a prevalent, costly, and sometimes deadly outcome of non-cardiac surgery. The ...

A hip surgery procedure called subchrondroplasty may benefit young and active people with hip problems. It is minimally invasive and preserves the joint’s natural function. Hip surgery techniques and ...

As an assistant dean at the Boston University School of Medicine, Maria Ober sees a lot of the studies by the school's researchers before they're published in scientific journals. One that crossed her ...