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Surgeons Not Good at Predicting Benefit From Knee Operations
Surgeons are no better at determining which patients might benefit from operations to treat torn knee cartilage than if they just flipped a coin, a new study suggests. Reuters...
2 hours ago - Medscape
CMS proposes changes to inpatient only, ASC covered surgical procedures lists
In the Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment System proposed rule, CMS aims to remove total hip arthroplasty from the...
1 day ago - Healio
Suprapatellar plica syndrome linked with complete septum type suprapatellar plicae
In a study of patients who had primary arthroscopy, investigators found patients with suprapatellar plica syndrome demonstrated complete septum type suprapatellar...
2 days ago - Healio
20% of patients waiting for a hip replacement are suffering pain 'worse than DEATH'
University of Edinburgh experts recorded the condition of more than 4,000 people on waiting lists for life-changing hip or knee replacements. The study was published in the...
2 days ago - Daily Mail - 2 articles
Woman Walks After 15 Years
Fifty-year-old Sandhyawati walks after 15 years. She would only crawl reason being a rare rheumatoid arthritis in which her knees were permanently bent.
2 days ago - Medindia Health
Increase in reverse arthroplasty leads to utilization concerns
In the past decade, published research has identified an increase in shoulder arthroplasty procedures performed in the United States. Some orthopedic surgeons associate this...
3 days ago - Healio
Man with posterior knee mass
A 36-year-old man was referred for the management of ongoing posterior right knee pain and discomfort following a complicated surgical history for his knee. He sustained a...
3 days ago - Healio
Patients report only 38% of GPs adhere to quality indicators for OA
A survey of patients with nonsurgical knee osteoarthritis found that just 38% of general practitioners adhere to process indicators, particularly informing patients of the...
3 days ago - Healio
Lateral extra-articular tenodesis may reduce graft failure after ACL reconstruction
BOSTON - Young active patients undergoing hamstring autograft ACL reconstruction with lateral extra-articular tenodesis experienced reduced graft failure and anterolateral...
5 days ago - Healio
5 Moves That Kate Upton Swears by for a Stronger Body
Between her modeling career, her adorable daughter, and a pro-baseball- playing husband, with whom she travels, Kate Upton is B-U-S-Y. Fitting in exercise became simpler once...
5 days ago - Health
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Alfie Dingley, one year on after he changed the law on medicinal cannabis
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Dairy products have something of a bad reputation with putting on pounds, but does eating dairy actually make you gain weight? It's a fair question to ask, because the people...
45% of Americans Are Out Here Wearing the Same Underwear For 2 Days in a...
Today in things you wish you didn't know: a new survey shows that 45 percent of Americans wear the same pair of underwear for two days or longer. Meanwhile, 13 percent took...
Stress can Curb the Desire to Eat
When a neurocircuit is activated in the mice, there was an increase in anxiety or stress levels and a decrease in appetite, finds a new study.
Wearable Sensors to Decode Sweat Composition
New non-invasive wearable sensors can detect the composition of sweat such as sweat rate, electrolytes, and metabolites.
School Shootings and Lockdowns: How do Kids Cope?
School shootings have become much more common occurrences in the 21st century. What affect are these events - and the drills designed to protect kids from them - having on...
Why I Won't Cry When My Child Starts Kindergarten
In a few weeks I'll hand over the keys to my most valuable commodity: my child. She'll march into kindergarten, without me. She'll eat lunch, laugh, sing, read stories, and...
Weed poisonings in kids doubled after medical marijuana was legalized in...
Most of the calls were for older kids who intentionally got into adults' legal stashes of medical marijuana - but may have been 'surprised' by the potency, new University of...
British women who developed a form of cancer linked to their breast implants...
Linzy Bromfield, 50, 'thought she was going to die' after she developed implant-associated lymphoma in 2016. She has the implants put in at a private clinic in the UK in 2005.