Wednesday 29 February 2012
VIDEO: Metal hip implants need life-long checks
The government's health regulator has advised that patients who have undergone large head metal-on-metal hip replacements should be monitored annually for life. The new advice comes as a joint BBC Newsnight and British Medical Journal investigation reports that problems with such devices have been long known, but no action taken to block their use. Deborah Cohen
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