Metal-Free Hip Implant Incorporates New Combination of Materials to Provide High Durability

Monday, May 7th, 2012

A European Commission-funded project titled ENDURE focuses on developing a new type of hip implant that is metal-free and provides bone-like elasticity. An international team of ten partners, which include companies, research organisations and universities, collaborated to develop a hip implant that demonstrated good wear resistance in initial tests. During the ...

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Certain Metal-on-Metal Hip Implants Need to Be Monitored for Life, MHRA Says

Tuesday, February 28th, 2012

New advice from MHRA and a BBC Newsnight/British Medical Journal investigation are causing more concern about the risk of metal-on-metal hip implants. Several major recalls of these types of implants have demonstrated the risk of metal debris that can cause complications such as inflammation. Now MHRA has issued guidance to ...

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