A medical procedure recently approved in the US promises to enrich the lives of those with bad hips, not to mention be very profitable for the makers of artificial joints. Hip resurfacing has been done in other parts of the world for more than a decade, prompting medical travel known as “health tourism.”Now Americans don’t have to go to places like Belgium or India to get a surgery that’s becoming increasingly popular. Shamane Mills reports…
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