Sentence examples for hip devices from inspiring English sources

Implant survival of the most common cemented total hip devices from the Nordic Arthroplasty Register Association database.

A series of 78 retrieved modular hip devices were assessed for fretting and corrosion.

All hip devices, regardless of the material, create debris as the ball rotates and rubs against the cuplike socket.

The F.D.A. received more than 5,000 reports since January about several artificial hip devices, more than it received about those devices in the last four years.

About 10,000 lawsuits have been filed involving those artificial hip devices and while a Chicago jury this month rejected claims of wrongdoing by Johnson & Johnson in one suit, another lawsuit in March yielded a less favorable outcome when a Los Angeles jury ordered the company to pay more than $8.3 million in damages to a Montana man.

It consistently releases hip devices and has branded itself in such a way as to draw considerable appeal throughout the early-adopting demographic.

The disputes involved different Zimmer products — in one case, a knee, and in the other case, a hip device component.

One hip device company, Smith & Nephew, which markets an implant called the Birmingham hip resurfacing system, said that data from an implant registry in Australia showed that fewer than 1 percent of patients using that product had reactions to metal.

In August 2009, the Food and Drug Administration notified DePuy Orthopaedics, a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary, through a "non-approvable" letter that it had turned down its application to sell a version of a hip device called the A.S.R. in the United States.

"Companies have dumped these costs into the health care system," said Dr. Lawrence D. Dorr, an orthopedic surgeon in Los Angeles who two years ago took the unusual step of drawing attention to one problematic hip device.

One all-metal hip device, manufactured by DePuy, a subsidiary of global health giant Johnson & Johnson, called the ASR was recalled in 2010.