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Orthopedics

Women With Employer Insurance More Likely to Report Unaffordability of Care

Dec 30, 2022

FRIDAY, Dec. 30, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A higher proportion of women than men with employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) report that they are unable to afford needed health care, according to a researc...

Noninvasive Interventions Can Reduce Spine Pain Versus Usual Care

Dec 30, 2022

FRIDAY, Dec. 30, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A multidisciplinary biopsychosocial intervention or an individualized postural therapy (IPT) intervention can reduce pain-related disability at three months c...

Ransomware Attacks on Health Care Organizations on the Rise

Dec 29, 2022

THURSDAY, Dec. 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- From 2016 to 2021, there was an increase in ransomware attacks on health care delivery organizations, exposing the personal health information (PHI) of near...

1990 to 2019 Saw Improvement in Women's Representation in Academic Medicine

Dec 29, 2022

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 28, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Representation of women in academic medicine improved from 1990 to 2019, but representation of underrepresented minorities (URM) only modestly increased, a...

Atopic Dermatitis Raises Subsequent Fracture Risk in Children

Dec 28, 2022

TUESDAY, Dec. 27, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Atopic dermatitis (AD) in children is associated with an increased risk for subsequent fracture, according to a research letter published online Nov. 9 in Al...

Computer Vision Approach Identifies Posterior Thoracolumbar Hardware

Dec 28, 2022

TUESDAY, Dec. 27, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A computer vision approach can accurately identify posterior thoracolumbar hardware, according to a study published in the December issue of the Journal of N...

Prices for Total Joint Arthroplasty Not Linked to Hospital Quality

Dec 28, 2022

TUESDAY, Dec. 27, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The overall negotiated price for total joint arthroplasty (TJA) varies considerably for hospitals within a regional health system and prices are not associat...

Bidirectional Association for Ménière Disease, Osteoporosis

Dec 22, 2022

THURSDAY, Dec. 22, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Adults with Ménière disease (MD) have increased risk of osteoporosis, and those with osteoporosis have increased risk of MD, according to a study publishe...

Low Serum Vitamin D Tied to Age-Related Loss of Muscle Strength

Dec 22, 2022

THURSDAY, Dec. 22, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Low levels of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25[OH]D) are associated with increased risk of loss of muscle strength in adults ≥50 years, according to a study ...

2012 to 2021 Saw Drop in Bicycle-Related Injuries

Dec 22, 2022

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The incidence of bicycle-related injuries decreased from 2012 to 2021, but the rate increased among the elderly, according to a study published online Dec....

Metformin Use Linked to Lower Risk for Joint Replacement in T2DM

Dec 19, 2022

MONDAY, Dec. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with type 2 diabetes, metformin use is associated with a reduced risk for total knee replacement (TKR) and total hip replacement (THR), according...

Position Statement: Vitamin D Intake to Prevent Osteoporosis and Fracture in Adults.

Dec 19, 2022

Adequate vitamin D status is essential for bone health. New randomized controlled trials investigating the effect of vitamin D supplementation on bone health have recently been published. This positio...

Football Players Face Accelerated Aging

Dec 15, 2022

THURSDAY, Dec. 15, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Retired football players may experience accelerated aging, including higher prevalence of chronic diseases, compared with the general population, according ...

Odds of Migraine Up With Median, Multiple Nerve Decompressions

Dec 14, 2022

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 14, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Patients who undergo upper-extremity nerve decompression for median nerve compression or multiple nerve decompressions have increased odds of migraine, acc...

Air Pollution Tied to Multimorbidity Status, Severity

Dec 14, 2022

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 14, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Exposure to air pollution is associated with having multimorbid, multiorgan conditions, according to a study published online Dec. 2 in Frontiers in Public...

Diet and Exercise Intervention Better for Pain in Knee Osteoarthritis

Dec 14, 2022

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 14, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For overweight or obese patients with knee osteoarthritis, diet and exercise result in a small but statistically significant difference in knee pain over 1...

Staging of newly diagnosed Ewing sarcoma: Results of bone marrow aspiration and biopsy versus (18)FDG-PET/CT imaging for bone marrow involvement.

Dec 12, 2022

Ewing sarcoma (ES) is an aggressive bone or extraosseous tumour with an unfavourable prognosis when bone marrow metastases are present at diagnosis. The gold standard diagnosis for bone marrow (BM) in...

Body Fat Percentage and the Long-term Risk of Fractures. The EPIC-Norfolk Prospective Population Cohort Study.

Dec 12, 2022

This cohort study aimed to determine the association between body fat percentage (BF%), incident fractures and calcaneal broadband ultrasound attenuation (BUA).Participants were drawn from the EPIC-No...

Adaptive Risk Modeling: Improving Risk Assessment of Geriatric Hip Fracture Patients Throughout their Hospitalization.

Dec 05, 2022

The purpose of this study was twofold: 1. To assess how adaptive modeling, accounting for development of inpatient complications, affects the predictive capacity of the risk tool to predict inpatient ...

External root resorption (ERR) and rapid maxillary expansion (RME) at post-retention stage: a comparison between tooth-borne and bone-borne RME.

Dec 05, 2022

The study aimed to compare external root resorption (ERR) three-dimensionally in subjects treated with tooth-borne (TB) versus bone-borne (BB) rapid maxillary expansion (RME). Forty subjects who recei...

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