Man has new hip resurfacing procedure
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No way was Rick Jones going to be a couch potato. An athlete and youth coach who works out regularly, Jones dreams of someday hiking the Grand Canyon. A painful, arthritic hip started to slow him down, but at 52, he refused. Then he heard about a new surgical hip procedure that could restore his active lifestyle.
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New materials and high-tech procedures are driving a surge in hip, knee and even ankle replacements.
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The creator of a new video recorder,  has invited skilled users to customize or âhackâ its device and share the improvements with others.
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Concern is raised about a new service brought in to provide medical cover outside surgery hours.
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This new blood pressure treatment has been developed in fits and starts.
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A 58-year-old Colorado man received a  new kidney on Wednesday in the first transplant operation in  the United States using an organ found on a private Web site,  hospital officials said.
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A German whose lower jaw was cut out because of cancer has enjoyed his first meal in nine years â- bratwurst sandwich â -er surgeons grew a new jaw bone in his back muscle and
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Olympic gold medallist Jason Gardener  faces more surgery -- but this time it will be on his wrists.
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Surgeons carry out the first full face reconstruction, including the nose, using a single flap of skin.
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A Romanian man whose penis was mistakenly severed by a surgeon will have a new organ made from skin on his forearm.
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Indiana Pacers center Jeff Foster will have arthroscopic surgery on his right hip today and is expected to miss 4-6 weeks. He has been hampered by the injury since before training camp, but didn't believe it to be serious until it flared up this week. &quot;It's a clean-out type thing, not a tightening thing or reattachment deal,&quot; Pacers coach Rick ...
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Dalia Isicoff knows pain. A lifelong sufferer of rheumatoid arthritis, she has had seven hip replacement surgeries...
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A new website is being launched in an attempt to strengthen patient choice.
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Surgeons may soon be able to practise tricky operations using a virtual scalpel on a virtual body, thanks to new 3D imaging.
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Medical device makers hawking new hip repair products using more of a patient's bone said they will likely go straight to consumers in advertising products in 2007, as the U.S. market is seen heating up.
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Erasmus James spent all of last season rehabbing a dislocated hip that threatened to end his playing career. He&#39;s spent this year in a much better place: the quarterback&#39;s face.
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German doctors have given a man the ability to have his first solid meal in nine years, by growing him a new jaw bone on his back.