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British health agency issues warning about metal hips

Britain’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has issued a warning that surgeons should stop using a particular type of hip implant because of “unacceptably high” rates of follow-up operations.

The report mentions that metal-on-metal implants – consisting of both a ball and a socket coated with metal – have come under scrutiny in both Britain and the United States recently over concerns about their early failure rate, and metal particles breaking off and releasing toxic metal ions into the bloodstream.

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