Trazadone, which is often used as an alternative drug to decrease antipsychotic use is also associated with similar risk of falls and major fractures ...
Orthopaedics
A RA case where Methotrexate and Septran combo turns deadly
Dr Mohsin Hamid at Department of Internal Medicine, Abington Hospital–Jefferson Health, Abington, US and colleagues have reported a case of rheumatoid...
People with Liver Cirrhosis at increased risk for Fracture
China: Patients with liver cirrhosis (LC) are at increased risk of fracture, suggests results from a recent review. “To the best of our knowledg...
Can Chronic Back Pain be treated by brain stimulation ?
Researchers at the UNC School of Medicine have shown that they could target one brain region with a weak alternating current of electricity, enhance t...
Every one in three adults with prediabetes has arthritis : CDC
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report reveals that approximately one in three adults with prediabe...
Five Foods that improve bone and joint health
About 54 million Americans have osteoporosis or low bone density but many of them have no symptoms until they suffer a bone fracture. According to the...
Dual mobility hip implant has less risk of dislocation
New York: The demand for hip replacement surgery is abruptly increasing across the globe. According to the findings presented at the annual meeting of...
Study finds no benefit of prevailing tennis elbow treatments
Boston: Patients undergoing non-surgical tennis elbow treatment hardly gets relief from pain, reports a meta-analysis published in the American Journa...
Gout patients unable to achieve uric acid targets at increased death risk
A new study presented at the American College of Rheumatology 2018 Annual Meeting reveals that patients with gout who fail to achieve optimal levels ...
TENS improves pain, fatigue,disease impact in Fibromyalgia
A new study finds that active transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) produced significant improvement in pain, fatigue, and disease impact...
