Illness Increases with Length of Travel We always suspected that jet lag was not good for us. Now a study reports that athletes who travel...
Journal Blasts Unacceptable Hand Implants The Journal of Hand Surgery editor-in-chief Grey Giddins has called for the profession to stop...
Robotic Smart Drill Coming to U.S. A hand-held robotic “smart drill” for use in partial-knee replacements is making its...
New Hope for Meniscus Tear Repair High on the list of concerns for athletes are injuries such as ACL and meniscus tears to the knee, ...
Vitamin E Blended With Knee Implant James Helgager, M.D., an orthopedic surgeon, implanted the first vitamin E Total Knee...
India Surgeon Performs Rare Feat Perhaps only in India do the opportunities exist to perform such rare surgery. Joint replacement...
Utah Docs Donate Four Joint Replacements Operation Walk has teamed up with the Center for Precision Joint Replacement and the Hofmann...
Can Prosthetics Anchor Directly on Bone? Skin issues or short remaining-limb length can cause amputees to reject the typical socket-type...
New Stem Cell Therapy for OA Prevention Researchers may have found a promising stem cell therapy for preventing osteoarthritis after a...
Heart Attacks Accompany Joint Replacements It is something else to worry about. A review of the medical records of more than 95, 000 adults...
Histogenics Lands $49 Million Cartilage Financing Histogenics Corporation, a regenerative medicine company, has completed a $49 million round of...
Andrews Institute Offering New Tendon Procedure No spring and a lot of pain in your tendon? James Andrews, M.D. may have the solution. The Andrews...
Arizona Tops in Joint Replacements It may be the “retiree-syndrome, ” the result of all the snow-birds moving to Arizona...
Obesity Ups Ankle Fracture Severity Lose weight and save your ankles. According to Lynda Williams, writing July 13 in News Medical, ...
Hernias Connected To Hip Disorder Could there be a connection between a common type of athletic hip disorder and the risk of a sports...
MIS Value in THR, TKR Questioned Do the advantages of minimally invasive total hip replacement (THR) or total knee replacement (TKR)...
PRP Treatment for Cartilage Tears Additional therapeutic uses for platelet rich plasma (PRP) have come from research conducted in...
Freedom High Flexion Knee Approved For China Market The Freedom Total Knee System, produced by Maxx Medical, Pvt. Ltd., has received approval from...
Therapy Tops Surgery for SLAP Tears Surgically repairing a shoulder injury in baseball players may not be the best medical decision....
Bariatric Patients: Elevated Fracture Risk? A study just published has found that obese patients who undergo bariatric surgery are not at an...
Biodegradable Magnesium Studied For Implants Scientists with a cluster of German hospitals have organized a “virtual institute” to...
Cataract Surgery Reduces Hip Fractures It only makes sense…if you can see better, then you see that thing you’re about trip...
How to Prevent Second Fractures A task force convened by the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research is sounding the alarm...
Why Surgeons Do What They Do Why orthopedic surgeons do what they do? A patient had suffered from rheumatoid arthritis for 18...
Australian Study Faults Thrombosis Treatment Fewer than 5% of Australian patients having hip or knee arthroplasty in the past received...
Alcohol Cuts Rheumatoid Arthritis Risk Evidence is accumulating that regular, moderate drinking of alcohol can cut the risk of getting...
CurveBeam Earns Certification for pedCAT The pedCAT, a weight-bearing, 3D CT imaging device for the foot and ankle region—small...
Newly-Discovered Molecule and Arthritis Treatment Newfound protein holds hope for those with inflammation…Researchers at The Feinstein...
