Jul 30, 2021

The latest installment of the #PWChat series centered around empowering physicians to discuss vaccination with patients. Below are the highlights from the chat. You can read the full transcript h...

Jul 29, 2021

THURSDAY, July 29, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- In 2019, 58.9 percent of adults reported any pain in the previous three months, with 39.0, 36.5, and 30.7 percent experiencing back, lower-limb, and upper-l...

Jul 29, 2021

Time to surgical intervention is an oft-investigated potentially modifiable risk factor for complications after mandible fracture. To identify novel risk factors for malunion/nonunion after mandible...

Jul 29, 2021

A 26-year-old male presented to a Level 1 trauma center following a motorcycle crash. Workup of his injuries demonstrated a grade 5 liver laceration with active extravasation, grade 5 kidney laceratio...

Jul 29, 2021

Tibial intercondylar eminence fractures are a rare pathology causing anterior laxity of the knee, which requires anatomical reduction and a stable osteosynthesis. The aim of this study was to present ...

Jul 29, 2021

Children with obesity are known to have reduced bone density and are at a higher risk for fractures. This may be caused by decreased physical activity or a metabolic phenomenon. In this study, we eval...

Jul 26, 2021

MONDAY, July 26, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- For patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty, abelacimab, a monoclonal antibody that binds to factor XI and locks it in the zymogen conformation, is effect...

Jul 26, 2021

MONDAY, July 26, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- For adolescents and young adult (AYA) patients with cancer diagnosed at age 15 to 39 years, there has been improvement in five-year relative survival for mult...

Jul 26, 2021

MONDAY, July 26, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- All health care workers should be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19, dozens of major U.S. medical groups said in a joint statement released Monday."D...

Jul 26, 2021

Surgical treatment for dislocated trochlear shear injuries is recommended due to its articular nature. However, the surgical exposure is often limited and large cartilaginous fragments with lack of su...

Jul 26, 2021

This study aimed to optimize the crystallization process and the microstructure of a new bioactive glass-ceramic (GC) previously developed by our research group to obtain machinable glass-ceramics.Dif...

Jul 26, 2021

To explore the anatomy, etiopathogenesis, diagnosis and classification, current evidence on intervention and the surgical management of orbital roof fractures and defects (ORFD) for oculoplastic surge...

Jul 26, 2021

To describe the use of a lateral wall implant as an adjunct in lateral orbital wall decompression in severe thyroid eye disease.This study is a retrospective review of 6 patients who underwent prior o...

Jul 26, 2021

To describe patients with periocular solitary extramedullary plasmacytoma (SEMP) and multiple myeloma (MM), together with an estimate of the risk of progression from SEMP to MM.A retrospective case-no...

Jul 26, 2021

Heterotopic ossification (HO) is abnormal growth of ectopic bone and negatively affects the outcomes after total knee arthroplasty (TKA). This systematic review and meta-analysis were performed to cha...

Jul 25, 2021

FRIDAY, July 23, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Racial- and ethnic-minority patients are underrepresented in the outpatient practices of many medical and surgical specialties, according to a research letter...

Jul 22, 2021

WEDNESDAY, July 21, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- From 2019 to 2020, there was a 1.5-year decline in life expectancy at birth in the United States, according to a July Vital Statistics Rapid Release report...

Jul 22, 2021

To characterize surgical treatment and outcomes of C1 fractures in a population-based setup.Consecutive C1 fracture patients treated at Kuopio University Hospital (KUH) Neurosurgery were retrospective...

Jul 22, 2021

While it is known that the degenerated intervertebral disc (IVD) is one of the primary reasons for low-back pain and subsequent need for medical care, there are currently no established effective meth...

Jul 22, 2021

The Low Energy Availability in Females Questionnaire (LEAF-Q) was validated to identify risk of the female athlete triad (triad) in female endurance athletes. This study explored the ability of the LE...