Hip Replacement News

At a luxury hotel conference center in Los Angeles recently, "international hospitals" from Singapore to South America set up half an acre of colorful display booths in an attempt to attract more business from U.S. insurers and employers.

If you think that a hip replacement, a knee replacement or a rod through one leg is an obstacle to exercise, guess again.

At a luxury hotel conference center in Los Angeles last week, ``international hospitals'' from Singapore to South America set up half an acre of colorful display booths in an attempt to attract more business from American insurers and employers.

A vitamin found in avocados could transform hip replacement surgery, enabling one replacement to last a lifetime.

A month ago, Almeta Whitsett was on the waiting list for Mobile Meals. With two hip replacements and a husband with Alzheimer's, the 84-year-old Greensboro woman was finding it harder to cook.

Here it is, the eve of Hallows Eve, and you don't have a thing to wear. But never fear, your friendly neighborhood vintage and costume shops are rife with possibilities - and not just your typical witch hats, vampire fangs and fairy wings, either.

WAITING times for hip replacements in Sunderland have been slashed to their lowest ever level, according to latest figures.

Steve Benen gets exercised over a new appearance of a zombie lie in the health care debate - the totally false claim that Canadian health care won't pay for hip replacements for the elderly.

THOSE CANADIAN HIP REPLACEMENTS.... Long-time regulars may know I have quite a few "conversation enders." These are comments that lead you to know, the moment you hear them, that the writer/speaker is either clueless or intellectually dishonest, and there's really no reason to engage the person in a serious dialog.

Getting a kidney transplant can take years and many never live to find a donor, but a young Bowie woman no longer has to wait.

Orthopedic surgeons perform 300,000 hip replacements annually in the United States.

Somerset Medical Center is ranked among the top ten percent of hospitals nationally for joint replacement surgery such as total knee and total hip replacements, according to a study released today by HealthGrades, the leading independent healthcare ratings organization.

More Australians are stepping out on replacement knees or hips, with a record 72,007 of the operations performed last year.

Chauncey Person just wants to be normal again. Thanks to a football injury, the 13-year-old South Girard student leans to one side when standing, and when he walks it appears one leg is shorter than the other.

Anna Mehler Paperny From Friday's Globe and Mail Last updated on Friday, Oct. 02, 2009 02:48AM EDT T he pudgy-cheeked baby in your arms and the snot-nosed infant making a racket on the subway should start making plans for triple-digit birthday celebrations: Chances are Canadian babies born in this century will live to see the year 2100 and beyond.

A Redlands business says it is saving three local hospitals more than $1 million a year.

Karen Knox works with Don Wiederholt on an aqua bike Wednesday at the Dubuque Community Y. Knox, who is involved in a study that focuses on exercise for hip-replacement patients, leads several classes per week on the bikes, which are designed to help people exercise who are not able to ride a bike under normal circumstances.

Richard Hartman, D.O. of the Family Practice and Orthopedic Care Center in Coldwater, Michigan is among the first surgeons in this country who have been trained in the remarkable new Birmingham Hip Resurfacing technique.

As we get wealthier, why should Americans avoid spending more on bigger houses or nicer cars or better health care? Why not be happy that we can now afford hip replacements in old age and diagnose cancer earlier? "Then there's the problem of rising costs.

People having hip replacements at private treatment centres brought in to cut waiting times are up to 20 times more likely to need painful and expensive repair work.