Feb 19, 2016 | AAHKS Leadership, Research
The Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation (OREF) announced today it has awarded a $500,000 research grant to Thomas K. Fehring, MD of the OrthoCarolina Hip and Knee Center and OrthoCarolina Research Institute, Charlotte, N.C. Dr. Fehring served as AAHKS...
Feb 19, 2016 | Spring Meeting
The discounted rate for the AAHKS room block at the First Annual AAHKS Spring Meeting will end soon. The meeting will be centered around a case-based discussion format in small groups with a maximum of 10 participants per faculty member and symposia on important...
Feb 19, 2016 | In the News, Research
Yesterday, the New England Journal of Medicine published a letter to the editor drafted by AAHKS President, Jay R. Lieberman, MD and AAOS President, David D. Teuscher, MD in response to the study, “A Randomized, Controlled Trial of Total Knee Replacement” published in...
Feb 19, 2016 | Legislation
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a final order requiring manufacturers to submit a premarket approval application (PMA) for two types of metal-on-metal (MoM) total hip replacement devices: hip joint metal/metal semi-constrained with cemented and...
