Dr. Jürgen Toft: Pioneer in Knee Biosurgery and Knee Care Hero

Cambridge, MA, September 1, 2001 - Knee1.com, a leading Internet Web site for knee health information, is honoring Dr. Jürgen Toft as its newest Knee Care Hero. Dr. Toft is one of Germany's preeminent knee surgeons. In 1985, he founded the Alpha-Klinik for Knee and Spine Surgery in Munich. Dr. Toft's pioneering work in knee Biosurgery emphasizes the repair of the joint with tissue generated from the patient's own body rather than using arthroscopy or knee replacement.

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.