Community screening for osteoporosis could prevent more than a quarter of hip fractures in older women – according to new research led by the Un...
Orthopaedics
FDA Safety alert for Product Marketed for Osteoarthritis
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recommended that Limbrel, a capsule marketed to “manage the metabolic processes associated with osteoar...
Spinal cord injury affects the heart
Spinal cord injury affects the heart, that’s what research published in Experimental Physiology and carried out by researchers from the Universi...
Gabapentinoids not found suitable for treating long-term low back pain
In a Meta-analysis of eight published trials in unselected patients, Dr. Harsha Shanthanna and associates evaluated the role of gabapentinoids in adul...
Obese have less risk of death
Researchers call it the obesity paradox: the phenomenon, observed in studies of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and other chronic conditions, ...
Hip steroid injections associated with risky bone changes
Osteoarthritis patients who received a steroid injection in the hip had a significantly greater incidence of bone death and collapse compared with con...
Long-term Low-dose Steroids acceptable in Early RA
In the latest cohort study conducted by Dr.Camille Roubille and colleagues explored 7-year tolerability profile of glucocorticoids (GC) for early rhe...
Delaying surgery in hip fracture beyond one day associated with increased risk of death
Bottom Line: Waiting more than 24 hours to undergo hip fracture surgery may be associated with an increased risk of death and complications. Why The ...
Chronic back pain: A 10-minute treatment leaves patients pain-free
The majority of patients were pain-free after receiving a new image-guided pulsed radiofrequency treatment for low back pain and sciatica, according t...
Your bones affect your appetite and your metabolism!
Your skeleton is much more than the structure supporting your muscles and other tissues. It produces hormones, too. And Mathieu Ferron knows a lot abo...