NEW YORK — Bradley Little, a physical education teacher in Arizona, was leading his class through a school hallway in 2017 when he collapsed. Little feared he was having a stroke. Or, in a sign of the ...

While titanium hip and knee implants do restore mobility to a great many people, they're still subject to failure. A new alloy could help change that, simply by adding a smidge of bendy, ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As concerns mount over the safety of metal-on-metal hip implants, health regulators are seeking advice on how best to minimize risks for the more than 500,000 patients who have ...

The US Drug Watchdog, a consumer advocacy group, is urging patients who received a metal-on-metal hip implant to receive an MRI to ensure the implant has not started to fail, according to a Reuters ...

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 ...

Hip replacement surgery, first performed in the 1960s, has revolutionized old age — and now middle age — for millions of Americans who otherwise would be crippled with arthritis and broken hips. More ...

Angie Rodriguez considers herself a medical experiment gone wrong. "In this slide here, it shows a piece of metal," says Angie as she showed Eyewitness News a pathology image of the diseased tissue ...

A student ran for help. Firefighters arrived and hoisted Little onto a gurney. At the hospital, an X-ray revealed that the artificial hip implant in Little's right leg had "suddenly and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Over the past two decades, more than 750 Profemur titanium hip implants have fractured at the neck, an attorney for the ...