While titanium hip and knee implants do restore mobility to a great many people, they're still subject to failure. A new alloy could help change that, simply by adding a smidge of bendy, ...

Pioneering 'printed metal' procedure to create bespoke treatment for early knee osteoarthritis set to be trialed in the UK following MHRA approval. Pioneering 'printed metal' procedure to create ...

An advanced design technique, used to develop components for aerospace and automotive industries, has been harnessed in the production of bespoke medical devices. An advanced design technique, used to ...

Titanium is a very biocompatible material, which is why it's so often used for medical implants. That said, chemical compounds in the metal sometimes do result in implants being rejected by the body.

GRENOBLE, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CEA-Leti, a CEA microelectronics research institute, will introduce a smart, integrated multi-sensor system for knee implants at CES 2022 that can help surgeons more ...

A knee-replacement implant, used in thousands of UK operations, was known to have a concerning failure rate eight years before it was finally withdrawn, the BBC has discovered. Patients have told File ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the osseoanchored (bone anchored) prostheses for rehabilitating amputees (OPRA) implant developed by biomedical engineers at Integrum AB in Sweden.