A 'Living' Alternative to Total Joint Replacement (AUDIO)

WashU Medicine

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Current estimates indicate that about half of all adults over 65 have osteoarthritis in one, or both, hips, and some of those patients are candidates for hip replacement now or in the future. Those operations help preserve quality of life for thousands, but researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis say the operation can be problematic in younger patients, and they're working to develop a living alternative. Jim Dryden has the story...

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