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(HealthDay News) – For total hip replacement (THR), metal-on-metal stemmed articulations have poor survival rates compared with alternatives, such as metal-on-polyethylene and ceramic-on-ceramic. To ...

A mechanical engineering professor at McGill University has designed a new 3D-printed titanium hip replacement that will not only take the place of your aging femur, but can also fool the living bone ...

Lilias Watters claims the metal ions caused a rare condition linked to hip and groin pain, fatigue and damage to the nervous system.

WHEELING, W.Va. (CN) - Johnson & Johnson and other makers of the DePuy Pinnacle metal hip-replacement system manufactured a product that led a woman to develop unsafe blood levels of cobalt and ...

Patients with 'metal on metal' artificial hips are at risk of complications caused by adverse reactions to metal debris (ARMD). A study confirms that blood metal ion levels specific to the type of hip ...

Data released from the Canadian Institutes for Health Information show five-year revision rates for total hip replacement procedures to be low, though metal-on-metal implants bring slightly higher ...

May 13, 2011 — The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued 145 orders for postmarketing surveillance studies to 21 manufacturers of metal-on-metal (MoM) hip replacement systems. The FDA is ...

This article was written for our sponsor, Whitley Law Firm. It is estimated that a quarter of all women who received a specific type of hip replacement from the manufacturer Smith & Nephew may ...

Around 117,000 people living in England and Wales had a hip replacement in 2024. Although hip replacements are often thought ...