Canada's healthcare grapples with access issues. A new report reveals longer wait times for surgeries, including joint replacements and cancer treatment. Despite increased procedures, benchmarks are ...

Hip fractures are common, especially in older adults. They can be very painful and make it hard to walk or live independently. Partial hip replacement is a way to fix these fractures, reducing pain, ...

Good morning. I’m columnist Kevin Cullen, dropping in to guest-write Starting Point about an issue that’s far more important to residents of Burlington, Vt., than the recent high-profile ICE ...

Denying joint operations to obese patients is counterproductive. Editorial: Rationing healthcare inevitably means difficult choices, but hip and knee replacements can help people lose weight ...

Also called hip anteversion, femoral anteversion is a forward (inward) rotation in the femur (thighbone), which connects to the pelvis to form the hip joint. In other words the knee is excessively ...

In the healthy hip joint, the upper end of the femur (thighbone) meets the acetabulum to fit together like a ball and socket, in which the ball rotates freely in the socket. Cartilage, a smooth ...

Private call centre staff, with no medical knowledge, were drafted in to field questions from worried parents to a helpline set up in the wake of a damning report showing a possible high level of ...