DePuy Will Not Pursue Research on Metal Hip Implants, J&J to Discontinue All Metal Hip Replacements
DePuy, the orthopedic unit of Johnson & Johnson has announced that it will be completely phasing out the production of metal-on-metal hip implants. This phasing out of the metal on metal hip implants is systemic of the health industry trend that has more and more medical professionals avoiding metallic implants. In almost all circumstances this moving away from the metal on metal hip implants is due to extremely high early failure rates in many of the implants.
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