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SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - March 6, 2008) - Today more than 90 percent of orthopaedic surgeons are men. This is a startling statistic given these facts: The number of women orthopaedic...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - March 6, 2008) - It has been heavily researched that men and women are in fact, anatomically different. But are they so different they require special and customized...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - March 6, 2008) - Seventy-Five years ago on an ordinary January day in 1933, a small group of orthopaedic surgeons gathered to form, what is known today as, the...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - March 6, 2008) - Older women who suffer a proximal humerus fracture (sometimes known as a broken shoulder) have a high risk for also breaking a hip within a year...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - March 6, 2008) - Until now, the impact of some recreational activities has been hard to judge when it comes to protecting artificial knee replacements. A study...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - March 5, 2008) - Today, at the 75th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), the Kappa Delta Sorority and the Orthopaedic Research and...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - March 5, 2008) - Intense feelings echo through a unique international exhibition of art created by orthopaedic surgeons and patients. "eMotion Pictures: An Exhibition...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - March 5, 2008) - The use of stem cells may have the power to transform orthopaedic surgery now and in the future. These "undifferentiated, unspecialized cells"...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - March 5, 2008) - We know men and women are different on the outside, but the differences on the inside are astronomical, as well. Today, orthopaedic surgeons are...

SAN FRANCISCO--(Marketwire - March 5, 2008) - The 'signature' wounds encountered in the on-going wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are musculoskeletal in nature. "Modern war produces devastating high...