Stryker issued a safety alert May 22 warning its LFIT V40 femoral heads used for total hip replacement surgery may come apart, Drug Watch reports. 1. The LFIT V40 femoral head has broken off the stem ...

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Exactech has recalled hundreds of thousands of implantable ankle, knee, hip and shoulder replacement devices over the past few years. If you or a loved one received an Exactech implant in 2004 or ...

The High Court of England and Wales ruled DePuy’s Ultamet Metal-on-Metal Articulation hip replacement device was not defective, ending a months-long trial involving more than 300 patients, Medical ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday announced the issuance of a final order requiring manufacturers to submit a premarket approval (PMA) application for two types of metal on metal ...

Dublin, Oct. 07, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Large Joint Devices Market Size, Share, and Trends Analysis Global 2024-2030 MedSuite Includes: Knee Replacement Market, Hip Replacement Market, and 1 ...

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has issued a safety alert for several makes of cobalt-chrome modular-neck hip replacements. The agency said that, as a precautionary ...

The joint replacement devices market is segmented based on product into knee replacement devices, hip replacement devices, shoulder replacement devices, elbow replacement devices, ankle implants, ...

The first federal trial over DePuy Orthopaedics Inc.'s metal-on-metal hip replacement device, which is the subject of about 10,000 lawsuits across the country, is scheduled to begin on September 9 in ...

(RTTNews) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a safety alert about the increased risk of thigh bone fracture after surgery with the use of the Zimmer Biomet CPT Hip System, which was ...

Key Takeaways Metal particles from a replacement joint can wind up in a person’s brainCobalt particles found in patients’ brains were linked to physical signs of Alzheimer’s disease, but not any ...