Patients undergoing hip and knee replacement often do so not only to alleviate pain, but also to participate in low impact-type sports. Golf is a spor...
Hip resurfacing is an alternative surgical procedure to total hip replacement. Study results suggest though that hip resurfacing is not the best optio...
At our institution, we have a Patient's Bill of Rights that every patient is given when they are admitted to the hospital that includes, among other t...
At our institution, we have a Patient's Bill of Rights that every patient is given when they are admitted to the hospital that includes, among other t...
Over $700 billion is wasted on unnecessary medical care yearly. This Boston Globe op-ed gives some eye-opening examples of where to start trimming th...
It's the line no doctor wants to hear at the end of their examination, but it's the line that cuts to the chase: Oh, and doctor, one more thing... Doc...
The US Senate Aging Committee was looking at medical device ads yesterday. The AP reports: While spending by the device industry is minuscule by compa...
More than 20 years ago researchers at Dartmouth found huge variations in the intensity and cost of health care depending on where patients with the sa...
The Hip Resurfacing Program at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation's Center for Total Joint Replacement offers an exciting alternative to total hip repl...
An article published in the July 2008 issue in The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, by Bitsch et al, outlined improved wear characteristics with cro...
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