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Orthopedics

Vertebral Fractures Marker of Poorer Prognosis in COVID-19

Oct 21, 2020

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 21, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Vertebral fractures (VFs) are a clinical marker of fragility and poor prognosis in patients with COVID-19, according to a study published online Oct. 21 in...

Cannabis Use Common in Older Adults

Oct 17, 2020

FRIDAY, Oct. 16, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Most older adults using cannabis report initiating use after the age of 60 years primarily to treat pain, according to a study published online Oct. 7 in the ...

MACE Up for High-Risk Patients After Noncardiac Surgery

Oct 17, 2020

FRIDAY, Oct. 16, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- About 20 percent of high-risk patients undergoing noncardiac surgery will develop one or more major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) within one year, acco...

Modest Increase in Patient Visits Could Offset Costs of Scribes

Oct 15, 2020

THURSDAY, Oct. 15, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- For all specialties, modest increases in patient visits per day would recover the costs of implementing medical scribes, according to a study published onli...

Patterns of pediatric cervical spine fractures in association with mandibular and facial fractures.

Oct 15, 2020

To determine the incidence, demographics, and outcomes of concurrent cervical spine (C-spine) fractures in pediatric facial trauma.The Kids' Inpatient Database (KID) from the 2016 Healthcare Cost Util...

Eight-Week Inspiratory Muscle Training Alters Electromyography Activity of the Ankle Muscles During Overhead and Single-Leg Squats: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Oct 15, 2020

This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of 8-week inspiratory muscle training on activity in the ankle muscles of athletes with chronic low-back pain. A randomized controlled trial involving ...

A Comparison of Clinical Spinal Mobility Measures to Experimentally Derived Lumbar Spine Passive Stiffness.

Oct 15, 2020

Spinal stiffness and mobility assessments vary between clinical and research settings, potentially hindering the understanding and treatment of low back pain. A total of 71 healthy participants were e...

Classification of various sources of error in range assessment using proton radiography and neural networks in head and neck cancer patients.

Oct 15, 2020

This study evaluates the suitability of convolutional neural networks (CNN) to automatically process proton radiography (PR) based images. CNNs are used to classify PR images impaired by several sourc...

Click chemistry based biopolymeric hydrogels for regenerative medicine.

Oct 15, 2020

Click chemistry is not a single specific reaction, but describes ways of generating products following examples in nature. Click reactions occur in one pot, are not disturbed by water, generate minima...

Crosstalk between CML cells with HUVECS and BMSCs through CML derived exosomes.

Oct 15, 2020

Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML) is a myeloproliferative neoplasm characterized by presence of the BCR-ABL fusion gene which encodes the constitutively active BCR-ABL chimeric protein. Imatinib is first...

BMD Testing Rates Low in Men Initiating ADT for Prostate Cancer

Oct 14, 2020

TUESDAY, Oct. 13, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- The rate of bone mineral density (BMD) testing is low among men with prostate cancer initiating androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), according to a study publ...

Functional outcome of gastrocnemius advancement flap augmented with short flexor hallucis longus tendon transfer in chronic Achilles tear.

Oct 12, 2020

There are various techniques of Achilles tendon (TA) repair and reconstruction in chronic Achilles tear. However, there is no clear consensus on the relevance of one method over the other. The short f...

Lisfranc injury: A review and simplified treatment algorithm.

Oct 12, 2020

Lisfranc injuries encompass large spectrum of injuries varying from low energy to high energy complex fracture dislocations. Whilst multiple complex classification systems exist; these do little to ai...

The influence of age, gender and the FKBP5 genotype on subjective health complaints in the Norwegian working population.

Oct 12, 2020

In the present study we examined the potential association between age, gender, the genetic variant FKBP5 rs9470080 and subjective health complaints.The data were collected through a three-wave nation...

Serum osteocalcin is associated with subjective stress in people with depression and type 2 diabetes.

Oct 12, 2020

Low serum osteocalcin is a risk factor for type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), and osteocalcin release from bone is associated with an acute stress response in mice. Both diabetes and stress are associat...

Silencing KIF18B enhances radiosensitivity: identification of a promising therapeutic target in sarcoma.

Oct 12, 2020

Sarcomas are rare heterogeneous tumours, derived from primitive mesenchymal stem cells, with more than 100 distinct subtypes. Radioresistance remains a major clinical challenge for sarcomas, demanding...

Relationship between bone turnover markers and oxidative stress in children with type 1 diabetes mellitus.

Oct 12, 2020

Oxidative stress in children with type 1 DM (T1DM) may negatively affect the bone.This study included 40 children with T1DM as the patient group and 40 healthy children as the control group. Plasma al...

Lifetime Prevalence of Suicide Ideation 17.4 Percent Among Doctors

Oct 09, 2020

THURSDAY, Oct. 8, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- The lifetime prevalence of suicide ideation (SI) is 17.4 percent among physicians, while lifetime prevalence of suicide attempt (SA) is 1.8 percent, accordin...

Physical Activity, Sleep Profiles Vary in Adults With Arthritis

Oct 09, 2020

THURSDAY, Oct. 8, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Four distinct physical activity profiles are detectable using activity monitoring among adults with arthritis, according to a study published online Oct. 6 i...

ASA: Cannabis Users May Need More Anesthesia During Surgery

Oct 09, 2020

THURSDAY, Oct. 8, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Patients with prior cannabis use may need higher doses of intraoperative inhaled anesthetic and postoperative opioids, according to a study presented at ANES...

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