Hip replacement issues have been one of the major concerns worldwide, especially following the release of data that complications have caused DePuy hip replacements to fail at a much higher rate than other hip replacement models. Newly-released information presented that about 12 to 13 percent of patients who received one of the recalled hip implants needed a replacement surgery after just five years.

DePuy is a subsidiary company of Johnson & Johnson, which implemented a global recall of thei...