ECATUR - Jennifer Overfield has ditched her state parking placard, which identified her as disabled. She now parks on the far side of parking lots. Overfield, 53, had her second hip replaced with ...

CHICAGO - Indiana resident Luke Pascale runs two pizza restaurants and had worked out three times a week. He also enjoyed long bike rides with his wife, but last year, the pain in his hip became so ...

Ceramic materials are good candidates for medical implants thanks to stellar biocompatibility and resistance to wear. Alumina, zirconia, and other ceramics have successfully withstood the harsh ...

July 25, 2006 — The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a ceramic-on-ceramic hip replacement system for hips damaged by noninflammatory degenerative joint disease; a system that ...

When it comes to arthritis in the hip joint, patients no longer have to grin and bear it. Instead, hip implants replace damaged natural bearing surfaces with artificial ones in order to alleviate pain ...

Back in 2014, Plochingen, Germany-based CeramTec, tried to stop Golden, CO-based CoorsTek from selling its pink CeraSurf-p devices to orthopedic device companies for use in implantable ceramic hip ...

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