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When they are done too early and they are a wonderful surgical procedure but you want to do them for the right cases in the right patients, and, using the proper size of joint, and, also, base your selection of joint use on the activity level of that person. there is a big difference between someone who is very active and in their younger years versus someone in their 60s and 70s and will not put much stress on the joint. >> gregg: i love the show and tem. you have knees there. >> over the last decade, knee replacements have more than doubled and 45 to 65 year category tripled in number. and i...

Component of recovery act. >> reporter: cash-strapped states receive $150 billion in stimulus cash, cushioning cut-backs and tax increases. still, states cut services or increase taxes by $185 billion in the past two years. those moves would have been even more harsh, the white house says, without the stimulus. >> tens of thousands of teacher just in new york city who were about to be fired and did not have to be fired because of the recovery act. that is an element of rescue. >> still, the white house says looking back there should have been more infrastructure spending and it should have bee...

Swelling at the actually site where they threaded the catheter. they're up walking around usually within a day and can be at home. probably a couple weeks before he sort of wants to be really doing much. the goal of these types of procedures is to reduce the symptoms he was having, in this case chest pain, and to get him back to his way of life, to his activity level. within a few weeks, maybe a month or so we're going to probably see that, maybe even a trip back down to where i am in haiti. >> sanjay gupta for us. sanjay, as always, thank you very much, appreciate it. we have been talking a...

Lunches, improving accessibility and affordability, which means eliminating food deserts, areas in in country where there's no supermarket so families have access to food. the last important pillar is physical education, and that's one of the more important ones for me. if kids are able to raise their level of activity, it frees them up to not have to worry about, you know, every little thing that they eat because their activity level tends to be that of a normal kid. the president's fitness challenge is going to play an important troel to make sure it just doesn't focus on athleticism, can it...

Pillars as we get information to parents, improving school lunches, improving accessibility and affordability, which means eliminating food deserts, areas in this country where there are no supermarket so families do have access to food. and the last important pillar is really physical education. that tends to be one of the more important ones for me, because if kids are able to raise their level of activity, it frees them up to not have to worry about every little thing that they eat because their activity level tends to be that of a normal kid. the president's fitness challenge is going to p...