Latest hip Stories

New York, March 19, 2012. The Rottenstein Law Group, which represents clients with claims stemming from the failures of defective hip replacement devices manufactured and sold by Wright Medical is now evaluating cases of those who received a Wright Conserve or Profemur Z device. (PRWEB) March 19, 2012 The Wright Conserve devices compose a hip replacement system that involves the capping of a patient’s thigh bone with a synthetic ball and the replacement of that patient’s hip socket...

Researchers at Duke University Medical Center used new tools they developed to analyze knees and hips and discovered that osteoarthritic knee joints are in a constant state of repair, while hip joints are not. "This suggests the knee has capacity for repair we didn't know about and the main treatment strategy probably would need to focus on turning off the breakdown of knee tissue," said Virginia Kraus, M.D., Ph.D., professor of Rheumatology and Immunology at Duke. "I was hugely surprised...

This week a federal judge handed down an order that could change the way hundreds of patients with defective hip implants in Florida file their cases. The judge ruled that two Florida women, represented by attorneys from the DePuy ASR Hip Recall Law Firm Alliance, will get to keep their cases in Florida State Court instead of in U.S. Federal Court. Sarasota, FL (PRWEB) January 27, 2012 This week a federal judge handed down an order that could change the way hundreds of patients with...

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., Jan. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Johnson & Johnson today announced sales of $16.3 billion for the fourth quarter of 2011, an increase of 3.9% as compared to the fourth quarter of 2010. Operational sales increased 4.0% and the negative impact of currency was 0.1%. Domestic sales declined 3.4%, while international sales increased 10.2%, reflecting an operational increase of 10.4% and a negative currency impact of 0.2%. Worldwide sales for the...

The Rottenstein Law Group, which represents clients with claims stemming from the surgical implantation of hip replacement devices manufactured and sold by DePuy Orthopaedics and other companies, takes some comfort in learning that researchers might have found a way to make all-metal hips less dangerous to recipients. New York, NY (PRWEB) January 17, 2012 According to a piece recently published by Reuters, “a substance that forms in patients with all-metal artificial hips turns out to...

ROSEMONT, Ill., Oct. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A global epidemic of childhood obesity can have a devastating impact on a child's musculoskeletal system, the U.S. Bone and Joint Initiative (USBJI) says. Because healthy bones and joints are the building blocks of a healthy body, when extra weight stresses growing bones it can cause pain and interfere with normal childhood growth and development. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20111019/DC89845LOGO) Growth Plate Problem...

SAN DIEGO, Sept. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) today presented a study that assessed the effects of 18 months of treatment with FORTEO(®) (teriparatide [rDNA origin] injection) on vertebral and proximal femoral strength, and the relationship of these effects to changes in the underlying volumetric BMD (vBMD) of postmenopausal women with osteoporosis. Researchers concluded that FORTEO increased vertebral and femoral strength in the spine and hip bones compared...

Further studies needed to confirm progression to osteoarthritis of the hip Hip impingement (femoracetabular impingement) may be a risk factor of osteoarthritis (OA) of the hip. A new study reveals that the presence of an underlying deformity, known as cam impingement, is associated with hip damage in young men without any arthritis symptoms and detected using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Full findings are now published in Arthritis & Rheumatism, a journal of the American College...

The US Drug Watchdog is dramatically expanding its national initiative involving the osteoporosis drug called Fosamax, and women who may have suffered out of the blue fractures to their femur, or thigh bone. According to the FDA, "typically these fractures occurred after using Fosamax for five years, or more." The US Drug Watchdog says, "In the instance of Fosamax, we are talking about women, whose leg simply broke. They did not fall, they did not run into something, their...

Bernstein Liebhard LLP reports that the first case management conference in the DePuy Pinnacle hip systems multidistrict litigation will go forward on Tuesday, August 9, 2011. Currently, all federal lawsuits filed by individuals who underwent a total hip replacement and received a DePuy Pinnacle hip prosthesis, have been consolidated and are pending in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas. New York, NY (PRWEB) August 08, 2011 On Tuesday, August 9, 2011, the first...