TUESDAY, March 11, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- A knee or hip joint replacement may provide a surprising benefit: better heart health.
The future of medical implants (the titanium ones, not the silicon ones), primarily within the realm of broken bones and deteriorated joints, is looking bright…hot.
Researchers at Ohio State University have discovered that cell growth proceeds almost twice as quickly on a metallic surface that has been heat-treated to form an intricately rough texture – on the nanoscopic level – than on one that has been left unmodified.