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  • Urgent Field Safety Notice - Precice System

    All Precice System Devices, including: Precice Intra-medullary limb lengthening device (IMLL), Precice Short, Precice Unyte, Precice Freedom, Precice Opty-line, Precice Bone Transport, Precice Plate, and Precice Stryde.

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  • All metal-on-metal (MoM) hip replacements: updated advice for follow-up of patients

    MHRA is updating advice provided in MDA/2012/036, to assist the early detection of soft tissue reactions in patients implanted with metal-on-metal (MoM) hip replacements (MDA/2017/018)

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  • Dutch men revealed as world's tallest

    When it comes to height, Dutch men and Latvian women tower over all other nationalities, a study reveals. The average Dutchman is now 183cm (6ft) tall, while the average Latvian woman reaches 170cm (5ft 7in).

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  • A century of trends in adult human height

    Being taller is associated with enhanced longevity, and higher education and earnings. We reanalysed 1472 population-based studies, with measurement of height on more than 18.6 million participants to estimate mean height for people born between 1896 and 1996 in 200 countries.

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