Hips

7 people to receive free hip and knee surgeries

2012-12-06 13:15:22

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Getting the runaround on long-term care insurance

2012-12-13 17:14:00

Rita Corwin, 90, conscientiously paid her premiums for long-term care insurance for 21 years to make sure that if she needed help as she grew older and more fragile, she'd get it. Yet now that she finds herself in a position to require such assistance,...

Review: For Bo Jackson, playing was enough

2012-12-07 18:22:00

We're lucky if we have the gift to do one thing well in this life. Even most superheroes just get a single superpower. ("Wait — you're faster than a speeding bullet and you're more powerful than a locomotive? How is that fair?") So there is...

Man, 83, faces life in prison in killing of 94-year-old roommate

2012-08-17 19:23:55

Man, 83, convicted of killing 94-year-old over singing

2012-08-17 16:03:13

A father's last days

2012-02-18 17:38:00

The hospice nurse said on Tuesday that my father could be gone within 24 hours. It was no surprise. He'd been bedridden for days, and on the list of 10 signs that death is near, he had six or seven. And so I headed north, to the Bay Area, to be with my...

Geriatric doctor doesn't shy from tough talk

2011-11-27 00:00:00

Gene Dorio, an old-school doctor who makes house calls in Santa Clarita, drives a 1990 Volvo with 362,000 miles on the clock and duct tape holding things together. His patients have a lot of miles on them, too. Dorio is a geriatric physician. "Medical...

Open the discussion on dying

2011-12-28 00:00:00

Last week, my dad was taken on a practice run from his Northern California nursing home back to his house. He'd had recent hip surgery, and the idea was that if he could master the challenge of getting in and out of the car and the wheelchair, he could...

A terrible choice to ponder

2011-12-11 00:00:00

The day after hip surgery, my father asked me to bring him a frozen coffee and something sweet the next morning. I returned to the hospital with a Frappuccino and a doughnut, one or both of which nearly killed him. He began choking and then turned...

Dodgers still fighting over Paul Shuey's salary

2011-12-16 21:37:55

Zsa Zsa Gabor's daughter Francesca Hilton seeks conservatorship

2012-03-20 16:41:50

For knee and hip surgeries, robots show promise for a better fit

2011-10-17 00:00:00

Orthopedic surgeons are doctors, but they are also artisans, sculpting bone so that it fits snugly with artificial hips and knees. But even the best artists make mistakes, says Dr. William Bargar, an orthopedic surgeon at Sutter General Hospital in...

Some hip replacements and other medical devices may not be undergoing as close scrutiny as others, says the Government Accountability Office.

2011-04-14 20:15:10