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New research released last week suggests that sex matters when it comes to surgery. Researchers examined the sex of the surgeon and the sex of the patient in over a million surgeries and found that female patients with male doctors fared slightly worse than any other combination. The reason for the disparity likely comes down to communication and relationship-building.

In cartilage, which is the soft tissue that acts as a cushion between the joints, the negative charge actually helps the cartilage spring back into its original shape after bearing a load, like in the knee after we take a step.

New research by an interdisciplinary team in Lithuania has revealed a promising and unconventional approach to cartilage regeneration.

A concrete advance has been made in tissue reconstruction, demonstrating that bone, cartilage, muscle, and fat-like tissue can be regenerated from bone marrow stem cells.

CartiHeal Agili-C, an FDA-approved implant made from coral, is designed to treat cartilage damage, with or without arthritis.

Eric I. Ferkel, MD, FAAOS, FAANA, also said evolutions in cartilage repair have allowed surgeons to increase minimally invasive access to these lesions.

SMART breakthrough offers a promising pathway toward improved manufacturing of high-quality cells for regenerative therapies to treat joint diseases.

“What we found in our study when we used osteochondral allografts, which have bone and cartilage, is that the addition of a tibial tubercle osteotomy did not improve the outcomes in these patients and, many times, there were more complications associated with healing issues with the tibial tubercl...

Biopsy confirmed a diagnosis of osteosarcoma, while staging scans showed no evidence of metastatic disease.

Transcatheter deep venous arterialization was tied to high rates of limb salvage and wound healing in patients with “no option” chronic limb-threatening ischemia

When a patient is diagnosed with osteosarcoma, an aggressive form of bone cancer, the mission is to remove the tumor entirely. Leaving behind even a microscopic cluster of malignant cells can be the difference between remission and cancer recurrence.