Sep 25, 2024

TUESDAY, Sept. 24, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- For adults with symptomatic lumbar disc herniation, unilateral biportal endoscopic (UBE) microdiscectomy is associated with longer operating times and with...

Sep 25, 2024

TUESDAY, Sept. 24, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Long-term use of skeletal muscle relaxants (SMRs) for chronic pain is only effective for certain conditions, such as painful spasms, painful cramps, and ne...

Sep 16, 2024

Traditionally, the intervertebral disks' (IVD) nucleus pulposus (NP) and annulus fibrosus (AF) are considered to have few cellular components and cell junctions. Patients affected by a new variant of ...

Sep 16, 2024

Axial micromotion between bone fragments can stimulate callus formation and fracture healing. In this study, we propose a novel mechanically compliant locking plate which achieves up to 0.6 mm of in...

Sep 13, 2024

THURSDAY, Sept. 12, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Racial differences exist in opioid pain management for Medicare beneficiaries after a hip fracture, according to a study published online Sept. 11 in the&...

Sep 10, 2024

MONDAY, Sept. 9, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) within one year of total hip arthroplasty is associated with a more than fivefold increased risk for mortality within 10...

Sep 09, 2024

A dislocation-density based crystalline plasticity (DCP) and nonlinear finite element (FE) analysis were used to predict, and fundamentally understand how and why fracture nucleation and propagation a...

Sep 04, 2024

TUESDAY, Sept. 3, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Acupuncture interventions using high- or low-sensitivity acupoints (HSA and LSA) are more effective for reducing chronic neck pain (CNP) than sham acupunctu...

Sep 04, 2024

TUESDAY, Sept. 3, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- More than 5 billion people globally do not consume enough iodine, vitamin E, and calcium, according to a study published online Aug. 29 in The Lancet Global...

Aug 28, 2024

TUESDAY, Aug. 27, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Physicians who adopt team-based documentation, defined as use of coauthored documentation with another clinical team member, experience increased visit volu...

Aug 23, 2024

THURSDAY, Aug. 22, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Most Americans believe artificial intelligence should be used to improve health care, a new national survey reports.However, many are still a little queasy...

Aug 23, 2024

THURSDAY, Aug. 22, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with thoracic ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament (T-OPLL), surgical treatment is effective for improving neurological functio...

Aug 22, 2024

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 21, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Electric scooter-related injuries are increasing in frequency and treatment costs and occur most commonly during nighttime and weekend hours, according to...

Aug 22, 2024

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 21, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Artificial intelligence (AI) is able to distinguish Marfan from non-Marfan facial images using ordinary online photographs with an extremely high degree o...

Aug 21, 2024

TUESDAY, Aug. 20, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Ahead of the 2024 election, more than half of older U.S. adults report being very concerned about the costs of medical care, according to a research letter ...

Aug 16, 2024

THURSDAY, Aug. 15, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Racial and ethnic differences exist in fracture rates and risk among women, according to a study published online Aug. 15 in the Journal of Bone ...

Aug 15, 2024

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 14, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Most clinicians show positive attitudes toward education in climate change, according to a study published online Aug. 8 in JAMA Network Open.Wynne A...

Aug 13, 2024

MONDAY, Aug. 12, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with cervical radiculopathy, posterior surgery is noninferior to anterior surgery with respect to success rate and reduction in arm pain, accord...

Aug 13, 2024

MONDAY, Aug. 12, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- For children with cerebral palsy (CP), a single injection of botulinum neurotoxin A (BoNT-A) into the calf muscles does not affect the gross energy cost of w...

Aug 12, 2024

This study aimed to compare the efficacy of two techniques-acellular dermal matrix (ADM) grafting and tenting technique (TT)-for soft tissue height (STH) augmentation simultaneous to implant placement...