TORONTO -- To arthritis patients, they still seem like wonders of modern medicine: artificial hip and knee implants that curb chronic pain.
In fact, 14,000 Canadians a year receive hip replacements and more than 21,000 undergo knee replacements, the numbers soaring over the last decade.
If Dr. Nizar Mahomed and colleagues at the University Health Network (UHN) in Toronto succeed with fascinating new research, however, such surgery will eventually become a thing of the past.
