Fear About Expanded DOJ Probe Weighs on OrthopedistsFear about an expanding probe into orthopedic device companies' financial relationships with surgeons was enough to send chills down the spines of even the most honest doctors at the annual American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) meeting this week.
Reuters Health, March 6, 2008
Golf Puts High Stress on Replacement KneesFindings from the first study ever to measure forces inside the knees of living humans indicate that swinging a golf club, considered a low impact activity, places as much stress on artificial knee joints as does jogging or tennis.
Reuters Health, March 6, 2008
Coming Soon: Clinically Focused Topic Overviews for CME
Clinical overviews by Raffy Mirzayan, MD, from the Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, will be linked as soon as they become available.
Topics to include:
Advances in Total Hip Arthroplasty
Improving Outcomes in Rotator Cuff Surgery
Minimally Invasive Knee Arthroplasty: What's Past Is NOT Prologue
Minimizing VTE Risk After Total Knee or Hip Arthroplasty
Hand Surgery: What Every Surgeon Needs to Know
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