US Drug Watchdog Now Urges All DePuy Pinnacle Hip Implant Recipients To Get A Blood Test For Elevate

The US Drug Watchdog says,"We are now urging all recipients of a DePuy Pinnacle metal on metal hip implant to start getting blood tests that are focused on cobalt, and chromium levels in your blood. If the cobalt, or chromium levels are elevated please call us immediately." As a background on metal on metal hip implants, according to the New York Times on December 27th 2011, "The wear of metal parts against each other is generating debris that is damaging tissue and, in some cases, crippling all metal hip implant patients." The DePuy Pinnacle Hip Implant is a metal-on-met
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