Health Highlights: Mar 29, 2012

Here are some of a latest health and medical news developments,
compiled by a editors of HealthDay:
Metal-on-Metal Hip Replacements Focus of FDA
Meeting
The risks and advantages of metal-on-metal hip replacements will be
discussed during a two-day assembly of a U.S. Food and Drug Administration
expert advisory row meeting.
The Jun 27-28 assembly is being hold to accumulate submit from experts and
patients. The FDA is now deliberation either to need more
rigorous contrast and pre-market examination mandate for this form of hip
replacement.
In May 2011, a FDA told manufacturers of metal-on-metal hip systems
to control post-market notice studies to collect some-more reserve information on
the systems, including information compared to steel ion concentrations in the
bloodstream.
The FDAs concerns about a reserve of a hip systems were heightened
by a new investigate that found an augmenting disaster rate in models with
large-diameter femoral heads.
We are seeking outward systematic and ...