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metal-on-metal hip replacements
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Study: Metal hips don't heighten cancer risks
For all the bad press metal-on-metal hips generate these days over potential malfunctioning and other safety concerns, a new study offers a small piece of good news: The implants don't appear to boost cancer risks after their first 7 years of use.
MHRA urges docs to avoid some metal hips
The bad news just keeps on coming in for manufactures of metal-on-metal hips. This morning, Johnson & Johnson ( $JNJ ) and Stryker ( $SYK ) are feeling the heat from the U.K.'s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).
FDA panel to hear experts, patients on metal hips
The FDA is seeking expert feedback on the risks and potential benefits of metal-on-metal hips.
Consumer Reports blasts implant safety
Consumer Reports is taking aim at implants today, maintaining that many of them, including gastric Lap-Bands and transvaginal meshes, have never been tested for safety.
Cease implanting metal hips, U.K. doctors urge
The drumbeat to banish metal-on-metal hip replacements from ever being used again is growing louder.
U.K. warns that patients with all-metal hips need annual tests
We've got some bad news for British patients who are stuck with the controversial and potentially unsafe metal-on-metal artificial hips. The U.K.'s Medicines and Healthcare products...
J&J sold troubled hip implant internationally even as FDA nixed it
Johnson & Johnson and its DePuy Orthopaedics division may be setting themselves up for many more lawsuits over metal-on-metal hip replacements, The New York Times reports. That's because the...
U.K. regulators launch metal hip investigation
Anxiety is likely on the rise this week among the more than 30,000 British patients who have metal-on-metal hip replacements. That's because the U.K. regulators have launched an investigation as...
