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In the Dáil, Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald raised concerns about how parents impacted by the hip dysplasia controversy ...
Worried parents who contacted a HSE helpline, after an audit of hip dysplasia surgery in children showed a high proportion may have been unnecessary, are being told in advance their calls are being ...
Developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) is a condition seen in infants and young children. It is also called hip dysplasia. In a normal hip joint, the ball of the femur (thigh bone) fits snugly ...
Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has said there is now confirmation for the first time that the children's "hip surgery scandal" at two Children's Health Ireland (CHI) hospitals goes back 15 years ...
The questions raised by the independent audit of children's hip surgeries will take many months, perhaps even longer, to ...
The Department of Health has ordered a probe into hip dysplasia operations on children which were not medically necessary.
Hip dysplasia is a developmental condition that can be congenital or occur throughout childhood and increases the risk of hip osteoarthritis. It is associated with pain and impairments in young adults ...
A helpline has been established for parents to raise questions about their children who underwent hip surgery at CHI Crumlin ...
for hip dysplasia in a retrospective case control study of 2,149,617 consecutive births examining the associations between LGA infants and congenital anomalies. [12] ...