Japan's aging population should not have to suffer for lack of joint replacement surgery.
Japan's aging population should not have to suffer for lack of joint replacement surgery, for example.
Three of the top ten hospitals for total joint replacement surgery are specialty centers in Oklahoma, Ohio and Georgia.
Mr Hobbs said while joint replacement surgery was routine, all surgery carried risks.
Milstein predicts off-shore competition for nonurgent surgeries, such as major joint replacement and heart procedures, is going to start affecting U.S. prices.
Biomet is a leading maker of orthopedic devices for joint replacement and Lincare is the number two provider of oxygen and respiratory therapy for patients at home.
Instead, she argued, money should be spent on interventions which genuinely relieve suffering such as cataract operations, joint replacement surgery and personal care for people with dementia.
Though not on the focus list, joint replacement manufacturer Biomet (nasdaq: BMET - news - people ) should outperform its peers this year, Moroney says.
Pennsylvania has detailed price information on cardiac and joint replacement surgeries on its Health Care Cost Containment Council Web site, but the data are several years old.
But he has led what is now a decade-long experiment in standardizing joint-replacement surgery.
Patients who undergo cardiac-bypass or joint-replacement surgery routinely are given specific guidance to the exercises and therapies they will need to return to their everyday activities and to prevent complications or relapse.
There was also the prospect of long-term damage to the joint, plus a hip replacement, that would have affected his day-to-day life outside cricket.
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Groupon's executive chairman Eric Lefkofsky and vice chairman Ted Leonsis are stepping in as temporary joint chief executives until a replacement for Mr Mason can be found.
The NTSB would not clarify Friday whether the April repair to the rail involved the mending or the replacement of the cracked steel joint bar.
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The joint reference design meets the demand for in-room HDMI cable replacement applications as well as whole-home full-HD video content sharing, using standards-based Wi-Fi networking technology.
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The polymers can be used in just about any form of product from hydrogels and solutions to coatings for things like hospital equipment and even replacement joints (infections from contaminated hip, knee, and other joint replacements have been on the rise recently).
The company believed the product was performing well until August 2010 when it "received new information from the National Joint Registry of England and Wales reporting that 12% of ASR resurfacing patients and 13% of ASR Total Hip Replacement patients were undergoing second hip replacement surgery sooner than expected".
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