A team of biomedical engineers at the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science working with a team of bio-scientist colleagues ...

Primary total hip and total knee replacements are among the most common and successful orthopedic procedures worldwide. These ...

The hip joint serves as the gathering point between your thigh bone (femur) and your hip bone (pelvis). If one is having hip dysplasia then the femur's round ball (femoral head) doesn't correctly ...

A distraught mother is begging Health Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill for a face-to-face meeting to ask why her disabled ...

It is where the thigh bone meets the pelvis to form a ball-and-joint socket. The hip joint consists of two main parts — the femoral head and the acetabulum. The femoral head is a ball-shaped ...

Finally, videotapes from each patient's hip arthroscopy were assessed ... surface from the underlying subchondral bone and delamination of the femoral head. Stage VI hips displayed profound ...

Floating about in microgravity might seem like a blissful reprieve for the human body's weight-bearing skeleton, but when astronauts spend months in space, their bone density takes a serious hit that ...