Six California plaintiffs allege in a recent federal trial that patients with these all-metal hip implants were unknowing guinea pigs, that influential orthopedic surgeons were paid millions of dollars to help market the hips, and that the manufacturer, DePuy Orthopaedics, ignored warnings from its own surgeons of potentially catastrophic complications.
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