Mar 15, 2021

Lead poisoning from spent ammunition is known to affect many avian species. Birds of prey ingest lead when feeding on game shot with lead gunshot or bullets. Raptors with scavenging habits are particu...

Mar 15, 2021

Vitamin D deficiency remains very common in the general population. Adding to the importance of this issue is the discovery that vitamin D plays a role in many other tissues apart from the bone, inclu...

Mar 15, 2021

Retrospectively evaluate the association of periodontal treatment outcomes and the prevalence of peri-implant diseases around tissue-level implants.Eighty-six patients with 260 tissue-level implants (...

Mar 12, 2021

THURSDAY, March 11, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Globally, among health care workers, there has been a high prevalence of depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) during the COVID-19 ...

Mar 11, 2021

To determine the risk factors for lateral meniscus and root tears in patients with acute anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries.A total of 226 patients undergoing acute ACL reconstruction were incl...

Mar 11, 2021

Type II odontoid fractures are mostly encountered in the elderly. Due to a high risk of non-union fractures in the case of conservative treatment, surgical fixation is widely recommended. Anterior odo...

Mar 11, 2021

One of the main challenges in treating osteochondral lesions via tissue engineering approach is providing scaffolds with unique characteristics to mimic the complexity. It has led to application of he...

Mar 11, 2021

The choice between 2 or 3 implants to support a 3-unit implant-supported fixed dental prosthesis (FDP) still generates doubt in clinical practice.The aim of this study was to evaluate stress distribut...

Mar 08, 2021

Lateral premalleolar bursitis develops on the dorsolateral aspect of the foot anterior to the lateral malleolus, distinct from lateral malleolar bursitis located just around the lateral malleolus.A 71...

Mar 08, 2021

Little is known about the impact behavior of composite fixation plate used in the fracture healing of long bones diaphysis. Hence, this study examined polypropylene composite fixation plates using dif...

Mar 08, 2021

Bone-cartilage mismatch is a variation in which the surface curvature of the articular cartilage is incongruent with the curvature of the underlying subchondral bone. The purpose of this study is to i...

Mar 08, 2021

Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) constitute a serious health care problem worldwide. This study addresses the effect of β-lactam treatment on the ability of clinically relevant MRSA...

Mar 05, 2021

THURSDAY, March 4, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Premature ovarian insufficiency (POI) is associated with osteoporosis, according to a study published online March 1 in Menopause.Alison K. Shea, M.D., Ph.D...

Mar 04, 2021

WEDNESDAY, March 3, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Almost one-quarter of patients with kidney stone disease have a prevalent diagnosis of osteoporosis or fracture, and screening after diagnosis identifies a...

Mar 04, 2021

WEDNESDAY, March 3, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- More than 200,000 Americans signed up for health insurance in the first two weeks after HealthCare.gov was reopened for a three-month special enrollment pe...

Mar 04, 2021

WEDNESDAY, March 3, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- More than 200,000 Americans signed up for health insurance in the first two weeks after HealthCare.gov was reopened for a three-month special enrollment pe...

Mar 04, 2021

The purpose of this study was two-fold: (i) to investigate whether the thermal treatment of direct dental resin composites (RCs) using microwave or autoclave heating cycles would modify the materials'...

Mar 04, 2021

To confirm whether peak aerobic capacity determined during laboratory testing could be replicated during an on-court field-based test in wheelchair rugby players.Sixteen wheelchair rugby players perfo...

Mar 04, 2021

Ageing, depression, and neurodegenerative disease are common risk factors for delirium in the elderly. These risk factors are associated with dysregulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, ...

Mar 04, 2021

Multi-scale, subject-specific quantitative methods to characterize and monitor osteoarthritis in animal models and therapeutic treatments could help reveal causal relationships in disease development ...