Orthopedics Perspective

• Preventing Future Osteoporotic Fragility Fractures   After surgery for fracture of her left hip, an active 72-year-old woman is evaluated by a multidisciplinary team of experts for osteoporosis and for prevention of a future fracture.
  Medscape, July 25, 2024
• A Cash Giveaway to Improve Health   We can't just give cash to low-income folks instead of food to improve their health, can we? That's just what these researchers did.
  Medscape, July 22, 2024
• Laboratory-Developed Meat: Ethicist Says It's Worth Pursuing   Ethicist Art Caplan discusses considerations for laboratory-developed meat.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, July 22, 2024
• Does This 'Stem Cell' Therapy Contain Any Actual Stem Cells?   Dr F. Perry Wilson explains why — at the moment — we have reason to be skeptical about stem cell therapies marketed for commonplace aches and pains.
  Medscape, July 16, 2024
• Chronic Neck Pain: A Primary Care Approach The Curbsiders discuss how to evaluate a patient with neck pain, and differentiate between mechanical neck pain, radiculopathy, and myelopathy.
  The Curbsiders, July 10, 2024
• Be Alert for Conjunctivitis: New Human Cases of H5N1 Bird Flu   Clinicians should be aware of the symptoms of bird flu seen in the first few human cases.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, July 09, 2024
• Infographic: PAs Feel Content With Jobs Despite Challenges A Medscape survey found that physician assistants (PAs) generally expressed high satisfaction with their careers despite various challenges.
  Medscape, July 09, 2024
• Key Data in Rheumatoid Arthritis From EULAR 2024   Key data in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) from EULAR 2024 include abatacept vs adalilmumab in early RA, the effect of DMARDs on development of interstitial lung disease, and results of the TREAT EARLIER trial.
  Medscape, July 03, 2024
• How Facial Temperature Reveals Age and Disease Find out why Dr F. Perry Wilson says that the medical tricorder perhaps wasn't as fanciful as it seemed when it was used by Dr Beverly Crusher on "Star Trek."
  Medscape, July 02, 2024
• Medscape Physician Assistant Career Satisfaction Report 2024 Despite overall career satisfaction among physician assistants, a minority express concerns about their relationship with doctors, patients, and administrators.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, June 28, 2024
• When Heart Failure Is Actually Cardiac Amyloidosis   Amyloidosis is an underrecognized cause of HFpEF. Pay attention to these red flags.
  The Curbsiders, June 27, 2024
• Online Diagnosis of STIs? Ethicist Says We Are Nowhere Close Ethicist Art Caplan discusses the use of websites for diagnosing sexually transmitted diseases.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, June 24, 2024
• Transplant Ethics: Quality of Life & Functional Restoration   Art Caplan discusses the ethics of transplanting for quality of life, not for functional restoration.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, June 17, 2024
• First Generation to Have More Cancer Than Their Parents   But how worried should we be? Dr F Perry Wilson breaks it all down.
  Medscape, June 11, 2024
• AMA President on a System in Crisis Outgoing AMA president Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, MD, MPH, talked recently with Medscape about the obstacles ahead for America's physicians.
  Medscape Medical News, June 10, 2024
• Change Makers: Joe Kiani on Home-Based Care   The CEO of Masimo speaks with WebMD CMO John Whyte, MD, MPH, about how wearables and AI can advance home-based care.
  Medscape, June 06, 2024
• Infographic: Ideal States for Setting Up a Practice A Medscape data analysis shows five states where physicians can be successful professionally and also thrive personally.
  Medscape, June 06, 2024
• Does Free Tuition Fix the Primary Care Shortage?   Hospitalist Alok Patel discusses whether providing free tuition for medical school will encourage more students to pursue primary care.
  Medscape Hospital Medicine, June 05, 2024
• DDW 2024 In Treating IBD, Consider Diet and Dentistry   Dr David Johnson highlights five compelling studies from this year's Digestive Disease Week exploring the role of oral health, diet, and intestinal ultrasound in the management of patients with IBD.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, June 05, 2024
• Inpatient Mortality Is Not a Great Way to Judge Hospitals   Public reporting of sepsis outcomes, including hospital deaths, isn't telling the whole story.
  Medscape, June 03, 2024