Smith & Nephew has acquired Tenet Medical Engineering, a Canadian company that sells surgical patient positioning equipment for arthroscopic surgery, according to a news release from Smith & Nephew.

Many patients report symptomatic relief after undergoing arthroscopy of the knee for osteoarthritis, but it is unclear how the procedure achieves this result. We conducted a randomized, ...

Obtaining magnetic resonance imaging scans on patients waiting to undergo knee arthroscopy does not appear to affect whether patients actually receive surgery or improve outcomes, according to a ...

Knee arthroscopy is not cost-effective and is strongly discouraged for patients with degenerative knee disease, say authors of a meta-analysis-based practice guideline published May 10 in the BMJ. The ...

Adding arthroscopic surgery to nonoperative management neither delays nor accelerates the timing of total knee arthroplasty (TKA) in patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA). Some case series show that ...

ANDOVER, Mass., Sept. 17 Smith & Nephew's(NYSE: SNN; LSE:SN) Endoscopy Division today announced the launch of itsLateral Hip Positioning System, which enables clinicians to easily test therange of ...

In our current medicolegal environment, we want not only what is best for our patients but also to be able to provide them with care that is based on facts. There are isolated cases and experiences ...