Around 1,000 operations a week rely on the product as patients are warned delays are inevitable.

Tens of thousands of Brits face having their hip and knee operations cancelled due to a global shortage of bone cement.

A critical shortage of medical cement threatens to delay hip and knee replacements and other pre-planned surgeries for ...

Bone cement is used to anchor artificial joints and fills the space between the new joint and the patient’s bone.

Campaigners say the news is a ‘crushing blow’ to patients waiting for surgeries ...

Scientists comment on a shortage of ‘bone cement’ disrupting NHS joint operations. Dr Alex Dickinson, Professor of Prosthetics Engineering, University of Southampton, said: What is the medical cement ...

NHS knee and hip operations could be cancelled or delayed because of a global shortage of bone cement products, NHS England has said.12 Shortages have been caused by a packaging fault at Heraeus ...

Surgeries requiring 'bone cement' are being reviewed on a case-by-case basis at a Shropshire hospital amid a global shortage of the vital material.

NHS operations are facing disruption due to a global shortage of bone cement.

Elective joint operations at north Cumbria’s main hospitals are being temporarily postponed because of a national shortage of.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . General anesthesia yielded higher bone cement implantation syndrome rates vs. neuraxial anesthesia. Bone cement ...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- The Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning about a type of bone cement used to treat fractures in the spine that has been linked to numerous serious side effects ...