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TUESDAY, Feb. 19, 2019 — If you need a new hip or knee, take heart: The vast majority of these joint replacements last decades, new research shows. The conclusion stems from an exhaustive review of several hundred thousand joint replacements in Australia, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and New Zealand. The researchers followed nearly 216,000 hip

Medicare’s randomized trial of a new bundled payment model for hip and knee replacement surgeries led to $812 in savings per procedure, or a 3.1% reduction in costs, when compared with traditional means of paying for care, according to new research from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School. The study

‘Having BOTH knees done in the same op halved my recovery time’: Agony aunt VIRGINIA IRONSIDE on the new partial replacements that get you quickly back on your feet Virginia Ironside discusses the new partial replacements that get you quickly back on your feet What was it, six months ago, that prompted me to consult