Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After suffering from debilitating pain for years, Juan Alonso of New York finally had his knee replaced. Then—just a few weeks ...

Millions of Americans are currently living with hip and knee replacements. While replacement surgery can be a good option, it’s not without risk. There can be serious complications. Consumer Reports ...

Sometimes, arthritis affects only one knee compartment. In these cases, your doctor may recommend a partial knee replacement, in which they will replace only the affected compartment. X-ray scan ...

Frequent dental scaling reduces the risk of infection following knee replacement surgery, according to a new study published online in PLOS One (June 23, 2016). As oral bacteria are responsible for ...

A retrospective study by Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) investigators, led by Geoffrey H. Westrich, MD, hip and knee surgeon at HSS, found that infection rates at a high-volume academic orthopedic ...

The search strategy yielded 644 individual papers. After review of titles, abstracts and language, 548 papers were excluded. The full text of 96 papers were reviewed along with an additional 13 ...

In the largest study of its kind, researchers from the Musculoskeletal Research Unit at the University of Bristol have identified the most important risk factors for developing severe infection after ...

The American College of Rheumatology and American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons teamed up to release a new guideline this month to reduce infections in total hip and knee replacement patients — ...

A woman in Wisconsin got a nasty bacterial infection in her knee, but the infection's source was an unexpected culprit: her vigorous tooth-flossing regimen. The results made little sense to the ...

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