DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) -- It was supposed to be a surgery that would give Durham resident Juliana LaDue more mobility and get her back to being an active mom and wife. Instead, she said the hip ...

WHEELING, W.Va. (CN) - Johnson & Johnson and other makers of the DePuy Pinnacle metal hip-replacement system manufactured a product that led a woman to develop unsafe blood levels of cobalt and ...

A new type of artificial hip, more robust and longer lasting than conventional artificial joints, is to undergo clinical trials and could be available for patients within five years. These 'ceramic-on ...

AUSTIN, Texas -- The story and perseverance of a former WTVD anchor have politicians looking to change laws regarding implanted medical devices. Frances Scott worked at ABC11 from the late 1990s into ...

1 National Institute for Health Research Oxford Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology, and Musculoskeletal Sciences, Botnar Research Centre, ...

Johnson & Johnson is in talks to settle the majority of the 10,000 individual lawsuits brought by consumers against its DePuy unit over its metal-on-metal hip replacement devices, according to reports ...

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 ...

Understanding the long-term risks of different types of hip prostheses is vital to the treatment of patients with osteoarthritis. Information about such outcomes is scarce, but particular concern has ...

STUDY QUESTION Are metal-on-metal hip replacements associated with an increased risk of cancer? SUMMARY ANSWER Compared with both the general population and people with hip replacements with other ...

Today’s batch of burning questions, my smart-aleck answers and the real deal: Question: I recently had a hip replacement, and since it has some titanium parts, I'm wondering if it will set off the ...