Cabbage Leaf Wraps for Arthritic Knees
Unbelievably, a randomized controlled trial of cabbage leaf wraps for arthritis was published. In a section of the British Medical Journal called “Minerva,” where interesting...
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Patients receiving tramadol for osteoarthritis more likely to die, fracture hip
Patients who receive tramadol for osteoarthritis demonstrate an increased risk for hip fractures, venous thromboembolism and mortality, compared with those treated with NSAIDs...
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Intra-articular Steroid/lidocaine Injection Improves Hip Arthritis Pain, Function
A single injection into the hip of steroid and local anesthetic improved pain and function in patients with hip osteoarthritis in a randomized controlled trial, with most of...
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Subcutaneous tanezumab, NSAIDs improve osteoarthritis pain
Tanezumab and NSAIDs both demonstrated early and sustained improvement in pain and function among patients with knee or hip osteoarthritis, according to data published in...
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Is Alzheimer's Risk Lower With TNF Inhibitors?
Tumor necrosis factor inhibitors for rheumatoid arthritis were linked with a lower risk of Alzheimer's disease and related dementia, but only in people with cardiovascular...
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2 Rheumatoid Arthritis Drugs Tied to Lower Risk of Parkinson's
New research shows two rheumatoid arthritis drugs show potential for lowering the risk of Parkinson's disease.
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'No clinically relevant effect': Duloxetine fails to impact chronic osteoarthritis pain
Adding duloxetine to usual care fails to result in any “clinically relevant effect” in patients with chronic hip or knee osteoarthritis pain, compared with usual care alone...
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Can Stair Climbing Increase Your Risk of Arthritis?
Most arthritis that affects the knee is osteoarthritis, a degenerative joint disease caused by the gradual loss of the smooth covering at the ends of bones, called cartilage...
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Top in rheumatology: Hip osteoarthritis burden, breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 infections
A recent analysis showed the global burden of hip osteoarthritis rose between 1990 and 2019, with incidence and disability-adjusted life years increasing in most countries. A...
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Antirheumatics not found to lower Parkinson's risk
Disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs did not appear to be linked to a lower risk for Parkinson's disease among individuals with rheumatoid arthritis, according to results of a...
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Artificial intelligence/AI can help diagnose osteoporosis from hip X-rays. One in five men will experience osteoporotic fractures
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Among adults with controlled acromegaly, postmenopausal women had higher growth hormone levels than men despite similar insulin-like growth factor I levels, according to study...
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Florida Teen Finds A Clever Way To “Say Gay” In His Graduation Speech
Who doesn't love undermining authority by finding clever loopholes? One graduating senior in Florida found a way to talk about gay rights at graduation even when he was...
Combined treatment approach proves to be beneficial for prostate cancer patients
Practice-changing research from Cedars-Sinai Cancer shows that a combination of androgen deprivation therapy-;a commonly used hormone injection-;plus pelvic lymph node...
Connecting Alzheimer's Disease and the Immune System
Study adds to emerging theme about the immune system's involvement in Alzheimer's Disease.
NIH awards $12 million to fund clinical trials for AD vaccine
Biotech company PharmaJet announced that its partner, the Institute for Molecular Medicine, was awarded a $12 million grant from the NIH National Institute on Aging for a...
New combined therapy helps extend lives of men with prostate cancer
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