Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By Kathryn Doyle NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - There is not much hard evidence that new artificial joint devices, including ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Ceramic-on-ceramic bearings have shown excellent long-term outcomes, with no osteolysis or adverse biological ...

WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration approved the premarket approval application of Stryker Howmedica Osteonics’ patented Trident ceramic acetabular insert. The approval makes this ceramic-on ...

PRAGUE — Rates of audible squeaking are higher in uncemented ceramic-on-ceramic bearings used in total hip replacement than in ceramic-on-ceramic hybrid bearings, new research shows. There is wide ...

TONICA, Ill. (AP) David Nagel was determined to play through his bad hip and push his sunken bowling average back into the 180s. But the 55-year-old Tonica man had underestimated the arthritis that ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently approved the first ceramic-on-ceramic hip implant to be used in total hip replacement procedures. Its manufacturer says the new device will last twice as ...

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 ...