The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday announced the issuance of a final order requiring manufacturers to submit a premarket approval (PMA) application for two types of metal on metal ...

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 of ...

Hip replacement is a major, arduous elective surgery, and rehabilitation afterwards takes time, according to an expert from Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore. It'll also take coordinated planning ...

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 ...

Modern hip replacements are nearly twice as likely as older hip replacements to last at least 25 years, suggests a study published in The Lancet. The authors of the systematic review and meta-analysis ...

Needing a hip replacement is unfortunate, but even more unfortunate is to need to do it again. Surgeons at Osaka Metropolitan University have provided new insights into the performance of two types of ...

Around 117,000 people living in England and Wales had a hip replacement in 2024. Although hip replacements are often thought of as a surgery that mainly older people need, reports from previous years ...

Curious what recovery really looks like after a hip replacement? Dr. Ayesha Abdeen, chief of hip and knee replacement surgery at Boston Medical Center, shares what to expect at every step along the ...