Common Knee Surgery Doesn't Work
 (MSNBC News, 7/10/02)

Dr. Bruce Mosely of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, and team, compared an athroscopic surgical procedure that is used to repair cartilage and clear debris from the knee joint to a sham operation in which incisions were made, but no surgery was actually performed. The researchers monitored the study participants for 2 years and found that both groups of subjects fared exactly the same and the surgery had no significant effect on the patients' condition.