Orthopedics News

• New Health Cybersecurity Rule: What Docs Should Know A proposed federal rule would require hospitals and physicians’ groups to beef up health cybersecurity measures to protect patient privacy and prevent ransomware attacks. Some changes could be expensive, experts said.
  Medscape Medical News, January 10, 2025
• Dry January: Should Doctors Make It Year-Round? Have sobering studies on alcohol caused physicians to drink less themselves or changed the way doctors counsel patients on booze? The answer is complicated.
  Medscape Medical News, January 07, 2025
• Using AI to ID Osteoporosis: A Medico-Legal Minefield? Artificial intelligence technology has identified many more patients with osteoporosis than institutions can handle.
  Medscape Medical News, January 07, 2025
• GLP-1s: The Key to Meet BMI Cutoff for Orthopedic Surgery? Surgeons are collaborating with obesity medicine physicians, turning to GLP-1s to help high BMI patients qualify for surgery.
  Medscape Medical News, January 07, 2025
• TNF Inhibitors Ward Off Fracture in Axial Spondyloarthritis TNF inhibitors offered greater protection against fractures than NSAIDs in patients with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA).
  Medscape Medical News, January 02, 2025
• Don’t Miss 2024’s Top 5 Stories From Canada Readers were enthusiastic, but commentators did not hesitate to share their thoughts and personal experiences.
  Medscape Medical News, December 31, 2024
• ACR 2024 IL-6 Receptor Inhibitors Show Early Promise for CPPD Studies have suggested that IL-1 beta activation leads to IL-6 production, which could provide an alternative to current therapeutic strategies.
  Medscape Medical News, December 20, 2024
• More Americans Than Ever Suffer From Chronic Pain The rise of life-limiting pain conditions reflects the general decline in the health of the population.
  Medscape Medical News, December 19, 2024
• New OA Diagnostic Test Developed, but Experts Are Skeptical The test used two synovial fluid biomarkers to accurately differentiate osteoarthritis from inflammatory arthritis, but its clinical utility remains unclear.
  Medscape Medical News, December 18, 2024
• Weight-loss Drugs Draw Americans Back to the Doctor Powerful weight-loss drugs are expanding use of U.S. health care as patients starting prescriptions are diagnosed with obesity-related conditions or take the drugs to become...
  Reuters Health Information, December 16, 2024
• AbbVie's Parkinson's Disease Drug Improves Patient Mobility in Late-stage Study AbbVie's experimental drug to treat early Parkinson's disease helped significantly improve patients' ability to carry out daily tasks such as eating and walking, months...
  Reuters Health Information, December 09, 2024
• Low Bone Strength Even After Remission in Cushing Syndrome Bone material strength index values were found to be low in patients with Cushing syndrome even after long-term remission, indicating persistent impairment of tissue-level bone properties.
  Medscape Medical News, December 09, 2024
• Lung CT Can Detect Coronary Artery Disease, Predict Death Lung cancer screening with low-dose CT can detect extensive coronary artery calcium, an independent predictor of all-cause death and cardiovascular events.
  Medscape Medical News, December 06, 2024
• Inflammation Predicts Increased Fracture Risk in IBD Controlling intestinal inflammation for 12-month periods reduced fracture risk in patients with inflammatory bowel disease, according to a nationwide Swedish study.
  Medscape Medical News, December 05, 2024
• Iron Overload: The Silent Bone Breaker In this cohort study, iron overload at very high levels was found to be associated with an increased risk for osteoporotic fractures, particularly for vertebral and humerus fractures.
  Medscape Medical News, December 04, 2024
• ACR 2024 Investigational Drugs Look Promising for Osteoarthritis Pain While much of the field focuses on disease modification, some agents are in development specifically to reduce OA pain.
  Medscape Medical News, December 04, 2024
• Paying Forward, Giving Back, and Being All the Better for It These medical professionals saw small opportunities to make what would become massive impacts in people’s lives. Imagine what you could do.
  Medscape Medical News, November 27, 2024
• Alcohol Consumption: Is Any Level Safe? Do you discuss alcohol consumption with your patients?
  Medscape Reader Polls, November 25, 2024
• ACR 2024 AI Robot Scanner as Good as Rheumatologists at Assessing RA Danish startup company’s combined hand scanner and artificial intelligence analyzer perform similarly to human rheumatologists in determining joint severity.
  Medscape Medical News, November 25, 2024
• Oxidative Stress Marker May Signal Fracture Risk in T2D An observational cohort study revealed that elevated levels of plasma F2-isoprostanes were associated with an increased risk for fractures in patients with type 2 diabetes.
  Medscape Medical News, November 22, 2024