Their mission: to establish the price of a hip replacement for their mythical 62-year-old uninsured grandma.
Kransky, a former North Dakota prison guard, sought hip replacement to relieve arthritic pain.
But I suppose family life, challenging knitting patterns and the odd hip replacement will fill the void.
Paula Van Riper, who was diagnosed in late 1999, underwent hip replacement surgery to remove a large tumor.
Tired, timid and woefully off the pace, it doesn't just need a hip replacement, but a reason for living.
Landis rode this year's competition knowing he would need a hip replacement because of a condition called avascular necrosis.
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That means your hip replacement will have to wait another six months.
Her ill health intensified in the 1990s, when she endured two hip replacement operations and another near-fatal bout of pneumonia.
He said: "I would not want a metal on metal hip replacement" preferring instead to go for ceramic on ceramic.
How many community orthopedic surgeons will be willing to do a 3rd hip replacement on an otherwise highly functioning 80 year old.
You cannot go on the Web and find out if you need a hip replacement what a hospital will charge you for that.
In one case a bone from New York was used in a hip replacement operation at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, in Stanmore, Middlesex.
There was also the prospect of long-term damage to the joint, plus a hip replacement, that would have affected his day-to-day life outside cricket.
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In September cyclist Floyd Landis, 31, got this new hip replacement.
In a 2009 interview with David Leonhardt, he mused whether his own grandmother's hip replacement after a terminal cancer diagnosis represented "a sustainable model" for society.
The most controversial of the latest ObamaCare taxes is the Medical Device Tax that hits entrepreneurial firms making equipment such as heart valves and hip replacement parts.
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While waiting for the hearing, Landis will undergo planned hip replacement surgery next week which he hopes will allow him to defend his Tour de France title.
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Fixing the number of days that a patient should stay in hospital after a hip replacement discourages the development of techniques to get him up and walking sooner.
He has never had to live in the world he helped make, the one where Grandma's hip replacement is setting off the beeper over here and the child is crying over there.
Veteran Labour MP Dennis Skinner gave a passionate defence of the NHS, describing the "wonderful" care he had received over the last 12 years, including cancer treatment, a heart bypass and a hip replacement.
He followed in the grand tradition of Journey's Steve Perry, forced to retire because of his arthritis in 1998, and Eddie Van Halen, who needed hip replacement surgery in 1999 and is currently battling cancer.
Although private sector firms already operate units that treat NHS patients - such as hip replacement centres - the firm will become the first non-state provider to manage a full range of NHS district general hospital services.
The hospital's been so pleased with the inexpensive outcome, that it's already begun prep work on a hip replacement surgery using a replicated pelvis -- and, no, they didn't specify if the patient was a fashion victim.
She told them she was perfectly healthy, but the surgery was adamant her records showed she was a heavy smoker and suffered from Alzheimer's Disease, a kidney condition and had undergone a hysterectomy and a double hip replacement.
The company had embraced Landis even after being caught by surprise when Landis revealed earlier this summer that he had been fighting tremendous pain in his hip and would seek a hip replacement after this cycling season was over.
My three younger siblings and my father, a retired police officer who worked for 35 years and has two knee replacements an impending hip replacement and the inability to take care of his kids by himself to show for it.
Metal on metal hip resurfacing is considered to be a much better option because it has a lower failure rate and is more cost effective since it does not need to be repeated as often as a total hip replacement.
Those in the health industry providing the benefits and services will also be victorious as an unprecedented number of paying customers who have struggled to pay for everything from a hip replacement surgery to prescription drugs get support to buy medical care.
Though the mortality rate for bariatric surgery, according to the most recent (2002) report from the International Bariatric Surgery Registry, is 0.3% during the first 30 days after surgery, it's lower than the 1% for a hip replacement and 2.8% for heart bypass surgery.
Inventor Elwood "Woody" Norris first developed high-end stereo speakers, an alarm that signals when a hip replacement has worn out, and now the next logical creation the AirScooter II, a personal aircraft that can hover or fly at speeds up to 55 knots.
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