Orthopedics
Sep 06, 2022
TUESDAY, Sept. 6, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A collaborative care initiative may expedite care for hip fractures among elderly patients, according to research published in the July-August issue of Geria...
Sep 06, 2022
FRIDAY, Sept. 2, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- An international competition resulted in the development of algorithms that provide feasible, quick, and accurate methods to quantify joint damage in rheumato...
Sep 06, 2022
FRIDAY, Sept. 2, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Xenpozyme (olipudase alfa) for pediatric and adult patients with acid sphingomyelinase deficiency (ASMD), a...
Aug 26, 2022
THURSDAY, Aug. 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Higher CXCL9 levels are associated with increased risk for hip fracture among men, but not women, according to a study published online July 10 in the Journ...
Aug 22, 2022
MONDAY, Aug. 22, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Intraosseous morphine added to standard antibiotic solution offers pain relief immediately after total knee arthroplasty (TKA), according to a study recently ...
Aug 20, 2022
FRIDAY, Aug. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- An intervention can reduce sitting time at work, with greater improvement with the use of a height-adjustable desk, according to a study published online Au...
Aug 20, 2022
FRIDAY, Aug. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- In lower-limb amputees, automated foot strikes from a six-minute walk test (6MWT) can be used to calculate step-based features for fall risk classification, a...
Aug 15, 2022
MONDAY, Aug. 15, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- An intervention that involves preoperative patient education and smaller prescription quantity successfully reduces opioid use while maintaining pain control ...
Aug 15, 2022
MONDAY, Aug. 15, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Opioid prescribing declined for both chronic noncancer pain (CNCP) and cancer pain between 2012 and 2019, according to a study published online Aug. 10 in P...
Aug 13, 2022
THURSDAY, Aug. 11, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Compared with regular meat eaters, vegetarians, but not occasional meat eaters or pescatarians, have an increased risk for hip fracture, according to a st...
Aug 13, 2022
FRIDAY, Aug. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The Inflation Reduction Act is expected to bring out-of-pocket drug costs down for many U.S. seniors, but most of its benefits are not immediate. Under th...
Aug 09, 2022
MONDAY, Aug. 8, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Inflation is putting Americans' health at risk, with nearly two in five struggling to pay for the care they need, according to a new West Health-Gallup poll....
Aug 08, 2022
MONDAY, Aug. 8, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Bone microarchitecture differs for vegans versus omnivores, but these differences are attenuated for participants reporting resistance training, according to...
Aug 04, 2022
THURSDAY, Aug. 4, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Jarlsberg cheese consumption might have prophylactic effects on osteopenia and metabolic disease, and these effects appear to be specific to Jarlsberg cheese...
Aug 04, 2022
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 3, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The number of Americans without health insurance continues to drop, reaching 8 percent in 2022 -- a record low. That leaves about 26 million people living i...
Aug 02, 2022
TUESDAY, Aug. 2, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- More than nine in 10 Americans believe that medical privacy is a right and their health data should not be for sale, a new survey from the American Medical ...
Aug 01, 2022
MONDAY, Aug. 1, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- In adults, limited English proficiency (LEP) is associated with worse access to care, according to a study published online July 26 in the Journal of General I...
Jul 28, 2022
THURSDAY, July 28, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Among generally healthy midlife and older adults, fracture risk is not reduced in those who take supplemental vitamin D3 compared with placebo, according to...
Jul 28, 2022
WEDNESDAY, July 27, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A federal lawsuit out of Texas could end access to free lifesaving preventive health care services for nearly 168 million people in the United States with ...