Dr. Pascal Serge Christel Honored as a Knee Care Hero for His Work Inventing Bioabsorbable Materials, Reducing Knee Pain and Keeping Some of France's Top Athletes Healthy

Cambridge, MA, July 24, 2001: Knee1.com, a leading Internet Web site for knee health information, is honoring Dr. Pascal Serge Christel as its newest Knee Care Hero. One of the premier orthopedic surgeons in France, Dr. Christel is one of the inventors of bioabsorbable materials, which reduce friction pain and repeat operations often associated with the use of nonabsorbable materials in knee surgery. Dr. Christel specializes in sports medicine, arthroscopy and knee surgery, and works closely with France's national judo team.

Body1, Inc. was founded in February 1999 to provide on-line health and wellness information to consumers. The company focuses on interactively communicating with patients by partnering with technology innovators and collecting the leading voices and experts in a specific field into one place-a Knowledge Cooperative (KnowCo). Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, within five miles of Harvard, MIT and the world's largest concentration of teaching hospitals, Body1's founding group includes physicians, medical writers, business executives and computer specialists from these institutions.

Knee1.com, a Body1, Inc. KnowCo, offers comprehensive knee information, accomplished through news features, technology reports, searchable databases of the most prevalent knee conditions and possible treatments as well as interactive tools where patients can tell their knee stories and ask doctors questions. Knee1 is sponsored by medical technology titan Smith + Nephew and Genzyme Biosurgery. The Knee Care Hero series serves to spotlight the leading knee surgeons whose exceptional accomplishments exemplify what medicine can achieve.