Nancy Pelosi sustained a hip fracture due to a fall while in Europe. Days later, she underwent hip replacement surgery.

Hip replacement (also known as total hip replacement or total hip arthroplasty) is a surgical procedure that is performed to ...

Alex Cobb, who signed a one-year, $15 million deal with Detroit, said he got caught up in the Tigers’ odds-busting run last ...

A peripheral nerve block is a procedure done by an anesthesiologist to provide postoperative pain relief for people having knee replacement ... more active after surgery, which lowers their risk of ...

Eighteen-month-old Ocie weighed just 3.5 kilograms — the size of a newborn — when Brisbane-based Dr Bade first operated on her recently for hip ... blood vessels and nerves during the surgery.

Ankle replacement surgery ... which may increase the opportunity for infection. Blood clots: There is a risk of developing blood clots (deep vein thrombosis, or DVT) in the legs after surgery. These ...

Drs Robert Glatter, Sergey Motov, and Gary Schwartz discuss a novel way to treat pain related to conditions such as rib ...

A new kind of prosthetic limb depends on carbon fibre and computer chips—and the reëngineering of muscles, tendons, and bone.