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Tens of thousands of Brits face having their hip and knee operations cancelled due to a global shortage of bone cement.

A shortage in medical cement could delay Wigan patients from receiving hip and knee replacements and other pre-planned ...

A shortage in medical cement could lead to delays in a number of patients getting hip and knee replacements and other ...

Rheumatologist Dr Thomas Batty and haematologist Dr Emma Conway O'Brien describe a rational approach to investigating multifocal pain ...

NHS knee and hip operations could be cancelled or delayed because of a global shortage of bone cement products, NHS England has said.12 Shortages have been caused by a packaging fault at Heraeus ...

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Bone cement is used to anchor artificial joints and fills the space between the new joint and the patient’s bone.

Researchers at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) have made a great leap toward predicting the risk of hip fracture among people with osteoporosis and evaluating the effectiveness of specific drugs to ...

Workplace accidents can look minor at first glance, but the body keeps the score. A slip on a wet floor, a fall from a ladder ...

Exercise therapy for osteoarthritis provides only small, short-term benefits; it is no more effective than medication and less effective than joint replacement surgery.

Around 1,000 operations a week rely on the product as patients are warned delays are inevitable.