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Allograft safety initiative is granted a 1-year extension to achieve goals
January 2009 After 3 years, the Transplantation Transmission Sentinel Network project, the initiative designed to decrease adverse events in tissue implantation, has reached the end of its funding but not the end of its mission, according to...
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Keeping Bugs Bunny on the Move
Heterotopic ossification is an odd phenomenon.It is as if the natural healing process around a traumatized joint gets a glitch in the program. The hip and elbow seem most vulnerable, and some movement is lost. The remedy for the ...
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Newer total ankle options provide a greater selection of implants for patients
January 2009 Total ankle replacement surgery options have increased in recent years from the first total ankle prosthesis available in the U.S.market - the original Agility ankle prosthesis (DePuy Orthopaedics) designed by Frank Alvine,...
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Esophageal cancer linked to osteoporosis drug use
The popular osteoporosis drug Fosamax (alendronate sodium, Merck) and other similar drugs may carry a risk for esophageal cancer, a Food and Drug Administration official said last week.Diane Wysowski of the FDA's division of drug risk...
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Happiness is a choice we all can make
January 2009 John D.Kelly IV In this series we will delineate several means how orthopedic surgeons can become more stress resistant by examining: the principles of energy management, rather than time management; the value of marriage and...
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USC dentists link alendronate sodium to jaw necrosis
Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) School of Dentistry recently released clinical data that links a common oral bisphosphonate to an increased incidence of jaw necrosis.The study is among the first to acknowledge...
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Heavily loaded backpacks can lead to lumbar spine asymmetry during loading
December 2008 TORONTO - Investigators who conducted the first study using MRI to assess how lumbar disc height is affected when subjects wear heavy backpacks found that caudal intervertebral discs compressed the most relative to typical...
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A New Year's resolution: Strategies for a changing health care environment
As we enter 2009, we find ourselves in one of the deepest and longest recessions any of us have experienced.In addition, the New Year will bring more changes and uncertainty into the realms of health care delivery and financing. The...
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Never events: Future threat to physicians
January 2009 Lawrence H.Brenner The semantic problems referred to in the column arose from a discussion of exactly what constitutes a 'complication' in elective surgery. The authors noted that our federal government weighing in on the...
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Rotator cuff repair discussion was most-read OT article
January 2009 Douglas W.Jackson 'The top-accessed article from Orthopedics Today on the Web site was the excellent Round Table discussion on rotator cuff repair that was moderated and organized by Neal S. ElAttrache, MD,' Chief Medical...
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