Orthopedics News

• US Drug Industry Middlemen Defend Business Model Amid Accusations Of Raising Patient Costs U.S. pharmaceutical industry middlemen defended their role in the healthcare system during a Congressional hearing on Tuesday after committee members accused them of pushing...
  Reuters Health Information, July 23, 2024
• GRAPPA 2024 Psoriatic Arthritis Treatment Failure Tied to Key Factors Comorbidities, disease characteristics, and socioeconomic factors were linked to failure to respond to disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs in patients with psoriatic arthritis.
  Medscape Medical News, July 23, 2024
• Do You Have What It Takes to Be a Doctor at the Olympics? Team USA relies on a group of physician volunteers to care for athletes. For them, getting to the Games takes flexibility, an ego-ectomy, and maybe even mad vegetable-chopping skills.
  Medscape Medical News, July 23, 2024
• Adjusting Opioid Prescriptions After ED Can Reduce Misuse Half of patients take five or fewer tablets in the 2 weeks after leaving the emergency department for a new pain condition, data suggest.
  Medscape Medical News, July 22, 2024
• Push, Fail, Push Harder: Olympic Athletes Who Became MDs These Olympian athletes chose medicine as their next challenge. The keys to their success, they said, are the same skills that brought them to the pinnacle of sports.
  Medscape Medical News, July 18, 2024
• Romosozumab More Effective in Treatment-Naive Patients Prior antiresorptive therapy — especially longer term — blunted BMD responses to the medication at the lumbar spine and hip.
  Medscape Medical News, July 16, 2024
• Microwave Ablation Reduces Recurrent Monoarthritis Pain Microwave ablation was safe and effective as a long-term adjunct treatment for recurrent monoarthritis in patients resistant to medical therapy.
  Medscape Medical News, July 14, 2024
• Olympic Mindset Tips Tailor-Made for Stressed-Out Physicians No medals for second place in medicine. Use these mindset techniques from Olympic sports psychologists so you can excel under high stress like a world-class athlete.
  Medscape Medical News, July 10, 2024
• EULAR 2024 New Gout Drugs Might Increase Patients at Target Urate Level New options in late stages of clinical testing for refractory gout promise to increase the chances of reaching the guideline uric acid target with relatively modest risks for adverse events.
  Medscape Medical News, July 09, 2024
• EULAR 2024 Osteoporosis Medication Could Soothe Arthritic Fingers Denosumab was associated with a significant improvement in the Ghent University Scoring System in a recent study.
  Medscape Medical News, July 08, 2024
• Most PAs Are Happy With Their Jobs Physician assistants get the most satisfaction from helping patients and feeling their gratitude.
  Medscape Medical News, July 05, 2024
• Facet Joint Inflammation Increases Ankylosis Risk in AxSpA Inflammation of the facet joints was rare in patients with axSpA, but when it occurred, it raised the risk for incident ankylosis by over threefold at the same spinal site.
  Medscape Medical News, July 04, 2024
• What Olympians Can Teach the Rest of Us About Pain Research shows elite athletes experience pain differently than everyday people. Here’s why, and how we can learn to deal with adversity and chronic pain every day.
  WebMD Health News, June 30, 2024
• New Tools for Monitoring Multiple Myeloma Advances in drugs and combinations have changed the landscape in multiple myeloma and enabled patients to live much longer.
  Medscape Medical News, June 27, 2024
• CMS Announces End to Cyberattack Relief Program Agency sent billions in advance payments to hospitals, providers, and others.
  Medscape Medical News, June 24, 2024
• How Blast Exposure May Lead to Alzheimer's Disease It's well known that TBI is a risk factor for later Alzheimer's disease. But what about blast exposure without contact injury? New research suggested it also increases the risk.
  Medscape Medical News, June 24, 2024
• EULAR 2024 Osteoarthritis Drugs Need Trials With Appropriate Endpoints The reason that disease-modifying osteoarthritis drugs remain elusive might be due to trial designs and targets not optimized for showing disease-modifying effects.
  Medscape Medical News, June 21, 2024
• Walking Helps Guard Against Recurrent Low Back Pain Regular walking can help adults with a history of low back pain avoid recurrent bouts of low back pain, a randomized controlled trial has found.
  Medscape Medical News, June 20, 2024
• Can AI Eliminate Errors in Radiological Reports? Artificial intelligence can read CT and MRI scans almost as well as radiologists can, according to a retrospective study.
  Medscape Medical News, June 18, 2024
• Probiotic Fails to Prevent Postmenopausal Bone Loss L reuteri did not prevent the age-related bone loss in the tibia, hip, or lumbar spine.
  Medscape News UK, June 18, 2024