More than 500 million people around the world live with osteoarthritis. The knee is affected more often than any other joint, ...

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Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Engineered cartilage from nasal septum cells shows promise in treating complex knee injuries. Allowing these cartilage implants to mature for two weeks before ...

“My knee just gave way, and I fell down the stairs ... patients might be told their joint is “bone on bone” – with no cartilage left. But while the cartilage is often degraded in ...

When cartilage wears down, the structures in our knee don't function as well as they should, resulting in pain, "and pain is really just the body's way of drawing attention to a problem in a ...

Vlatko Cancar explains why it was both “a good thing and a bad thing that I went under the knife” last December.