People living with dementia who had hip fractures treated with surgery lived longer than those who didn’t have surgery, a new study finds. Choosing to undergo surgery can be a complicated decision for ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “Off-hour” surgical start times, between 5 p.m. and 6:59 a.m., may not negatively affect outcomes of hip ...

One year after hip fracture, three percent of patients aged 50 to 80 years at the time of surgery were living in some type of institution, as compared to 20 percent of patients older than 80. Of those ...

(CNN) --The news an elderly relative has broken a hip tends to sound alarm bells, perhaps more than breaking another bone would. That's because a hip fracture dramatically increases an older person's ...

(Reuters Health) - Seniors are more likely to survive a hip fracture if the break is repaired the day they're admitted to the hospital or the following day at the latest, a new study finds. An ...

U.S. News & World Report, the global authority in hospital rankings and consumer advice, has named MyMichigan Medical Center Clare as a 2022-2023 High Performing hospital for hip fracture repair ...

Geriatric hip fractures remain associated with significant mortality and morbidity. Identifying factors associated with such ...

Beta-blockers may be associated with reduced 1-year mortality rates after hip fracture surgery, according to a retrospective cohort study of 134,915 Swedish adults who underwent primary hip fracture ...

IN OCTOBER, 1939, I 1 reported on a small series of hip reconstructions done for painful, nonunited fractures of the femoral neck under the various prevalent standard procedures. These included the ...

With CMS bundled payments expanding from joint replacement procedures to hip and femur fracture surgeries, Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies offer consulting and data insights to help health ...