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Joint replacement surgery once was reserved for older patients suffering from knee or hip pain usually related to arthritis.

But the face of the joint replacement patient is changing, skewing younger than ever before, and the phenomenon is changing the field, according to orthopedic surgery experts.

Since joint replacement's inception in the 1970s, surgeons traditionally have been reluctant to replace joints in people younger than 70 because the devices lasted no more than 10 years. The younger the patient, the more revision surgeries would be necessary as the replacements wore out.

But now, people in their early 60s, 50s and even 40s are finding relief from the debilitating pain of arthritis with improved replacement devices, new surgical procedures and techniques, making longer lasting, more functional replacements a reality, surgeons said.

Childhood Influenza Immunization Coalition Encourages Vaccination Throughout The Influenza Season

To raise awareness of the need to vaccinate more infants, children and adolescents against influenza, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in conjunction with Families Fighting Flu, declared, November 27, as the first ever "Children's Flu Vaccination Day." The National Foundation for Infectious Diseases' (NFID) Childhood Influenza Immunization Coalition commends this effort to emphasize the importance of annual influenza vaccination to protect children and their contacts from this serious and potentially deadly virus.

"Influenza claims more American lives every year than all other vaccine- preventable diseases combined," said Richard H. Carmona, M.D., M.P.H., FACS, Coalition Chair, 17th Surgeon General of the United States (2002-2006), President of Canyon Ranch Institute and Distinguished Professor of Public Health, The University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health.

Shock tactics

Hundreds of children no other school wants — from the autistic to the merely troubled — attend a centre in America where electric shocks are administered for even the smallest misdemeanour. Forced to wear 10lb backpacks with electrodes attached to their skin, they never know when their teachers will deliver this ‘behaviour-modification’ therapy. Why hasn’t the school been closed down? .

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Friends of the Park program Friday: Local Briefs

Friends of the Parks will present "To Yellowstone and Back," at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 9, at the lodge in Blue Spruce Park, located six miles north of Indiana off of Route 110 near Ernest. Larry Turton will use slides and lecture material to demonstrate significant changes in Yellowstone National Park, the world's largest super volcano, between 1972 and 2006. The show will look at physical changes as well as some of the socio-political issues affecting the future of the park.