According to a story posted on Fox News, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning letter to medical device maker Zimmer Holdings Inc., mentioning concerns about the manufacture of certain hip implants.
The letter was sent following an agency inspection of the company’s plant in Puerto Rico, which found manufacturing and testing issues related to the company’s Trilogy Acetabular System products — implanted in hip-replacement surgery.
The report came ...
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Researchers in the U.K. have recommended that women not receive all-metal hip replacements because of the procedure’s early failure rate, Bloomberg reports.
In a study published in the Lancet medical journal, scientists who analyzed data from the National Joint Registry for England and Wales found that women experience more problems than men in the seven years after surgery. They also found that “metal-on-metal” resurfacing implants fail more quickly than total hip ...
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Urinary incontinence can be an embarrassing condition that often involves some inconvenient lifestyle changes.
But according to the Mayo Clinic, it’s sometimes a result of easily treatable medical conditions. Those conditions include:
Urinary tract infection: Infections can irritate your bladder, causing you to have strong urges to urinate. These urges may result in episodes of incontinence, which may be your only warning sign of a urinary tract infection. Other possible signs and ...
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Consumer Reports conducted a survey about antidepressant use, compiling answers from 1,500 respondents. According to an article accompanying the survey results, the findings contradict the implications of antidepressant advertisements, which imply that pills are the only answer for serious depression or anxiety disorders and that they work for everyone.
The survey found that rates of reported side effects among people taking antidepressants were higher than those reported in studies funded by ...
continue reading...During a panel discussion on clinical depression at Marquette University in Wisconsin, some participants speculated that antidepressants might be over-prescribed.
An article about the event in the Marquette Tribune says one of the panel participants was Katherine Sharpe, the author of “Coming of Age on Zoloft.” Sharpe, who was first prescribed Zoloft when she was in college, questions whether the widespread practice of medical professionals automatically prescribing antidepressants harms the emotional ...
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A story in the Tampa Bay Times warns readers that a long airplane trip can put them at risk of suffering a blood clot.
The story cites research published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, which found that taking a blood thinner – or even a baby aspirin – before such a trip may reduce that risk.
Anyone can be at a higher risk of blood clots in the legs, called deep ...
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