Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “Off-hour” surgical start times, between 5 p.m. and 6:59 a.m., may not negatively affect outcomes of hip ...

(CNN) --The news an elderly relative has broken a hip tends to sound alarm bells, perhaps more than breaking another bone would. That's because a hip fracture dramatically increases an older person's ...

Results showed that use of GLP-1 receptor agonists did not increase short-term medical or surgical complications among ...

One year after hip fracture, three percent of patients aged 50 to 80 years at the time of surgery were living in some type of institution, as compared to 20 percent of patients older than 80. Of those ...

When anesthesiologists lead the preoperative process, patients undergoing surgery for hip fractures - one of the leading causes of hospitalization in older adults - get to the operating room (OR) ...

Beta-blockers may be associated with reduced 1-year mortality rates after hip fracture surgery, according to a retrospective cohort study of 134,915 Swedish adults who underwent primary hip fracture ...

Half of nursing home residents who have a hip fracture either die or lose the ability to walk on their own in the six months after the injury, according to a new study. Residents older than 90 and ...

According to results from a recent study, 71% of patients who sustained a hip fracture were not informed that they have a bone weakening disease known as osteoporosis as a contributing reason for ...

IN OCTOBER, 1939, I 1 reported on a small series of hip reconstructions done for painful, nonunited fractures of the femoral neck under the various prevalent standard procedures. These included the ...

A widely used fracture risk calculator may help guide surgical decisions to treat patients with an endocrine disorder called primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) that causes progressive bone loss, ...