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Have any used implants lying around? Drop them in a box, slap on some packing tape and mail them to Drexel University’s Implant Research Center in Philadelphia, Pa., care of Steven Kurtz, PhD. Stacks of hip and knee hardware that had to be removed from patients for various reasons line the walls of his lab. Dr. Kurtz sifts through the castaways to find out why implants fail and what can be done to improve the design of the plastic and metal devices that are placed in thousands of worn out joints each year. Read more from Outpatient Surgery.