Ron Strang a retired Marine sergeant, shows his injured leg at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. An experimental implant of connective tissue developed from pigs has strengthened the leg after Strang lost half of the thigh muscle to shrapnel in a bomb blast in Afghanistan.
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Ron Strang a retired Marine sergeant, shows his injured leg at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. An experimental implant of connective tissue developed from pigs has strengthened the leg after Strang lost half of the thigh muscle to shrapnel in a bomb blast in Afghanistan.

Medical advances boost wounded vets

By Marilyn Marchione
The Associated Press

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BOSTON –
Doctors nationwide are using some of the most advanced medical tools that now to help America’s newest veterans and wounded troops.

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