Joint operations were postponed after the main supplier suffered a critical incident at its plant.

The issue has temporarily halted production at its main site and will impact product availability for at least two months ...

Hospitals across Britain were told to postpone treatments last week, including knee and hip replacements, after problems arose at the health service's main supplier ...

Two alternative providers of medical cement, critical to trauma and elective orthopaedic surgery procedures, have been secured, the NHS has confirmed. The health service had warned last week that knee ...

Planned surgery is being reviewed but emergency and urgent trauma operations continue as normal.

The NHS has secured two alternative providers of medical cement to prevent delays to patients' surgeries amid a shortage of ...

Procedures such as knee and hip replacements can expose patients to potential bacterial infections, and bone cements are one way physicians can lower the risk. These materials anchor the artificial ...

Every year, 700,000 people die due to antibiotic resistance. Now, researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital have developed a specialized drug-device delivery system to identify an effective ...

A substance known as calcium phosphate cement is commonly used to repair broken bones, both holding them together and encouraging the growth of new bone tissue. Now, scientists have added carbon ...

SEATTLE – Reba Golden hurt her back after falling two floors while building an addition to her house in Honduras, but when she returned to Seattle for a routine spinal surgery, she suffered blood ...

A large trial has found that using high-dose dual-antibiotic loaded cement is unlikely to reduce the risk of surgical site infection in people who have had a hip replacement. In recent years, there ...