Orthopedics News

• New Residency Matching Sets Record, Says NRMP Highest number of applicants ever are matched to subspecialty training positions, as number of US MD and international grads both rise.
  Medscape Medical News, December 04, 2020
• RSNA 2020 Radiofrequency Ablation Blocks Hip, Shoulder Arthritis Pain A new treatment 'stuns' sensory nerves and reduces pain signals in knee and shoulder osteoarthritis.
  Medscape Medical News, December 04, 2020
• RSNA 2020 Teenage Bone Density Declines Following Sleeve Gastrectomy These patients may never reach peak bone mass.
  Medscape Medical News, December 03, 2020
• Real Acupuncture Beat Sham for Osteoarthritis Knee Pain Electro-acupuncture resulted in significant improvement in pain and function, compared with sham acupuncture, in a randomized trial of more than 400 adults with knee OA.
  Medscape Medical News, December 03, 2020
• RSNA 2020 Nondisplaced Ulna Fracture Could Mean Intimate-Partner Violence Records from six EDs suggest that about a third of ulna fractures in women may be related to intimate-partner violence, but many of those women initially denied that their partner was responsible.
  Medscape Medical News, December 02, 2020
• Celebrity Doctor Chastised After Maskless Boat Party Photo Mikhail Varshavski, aka "Dr Mike," apologized after he was seen without a mask amid partiers on a crowded boat deck. Then a nurse bragged about going maskless. Should providers be held to a higher standard?
  Medscape Medical News, December 01, 2020
• Higher Risk of Falls/Fractures With Androgen Receptor Inhibitors Men with prostate cancer taking androgen receptor inhibitors had a higher risk of both falls and fractures compared with men who took other therapies.
  Medscape Medical News, December 01, 2020
• Biden Fractures Foot, Will Wear Orthopedic Boot Follow-up CT scan confirmed hairline fractures of President-elect Biden's lateral and intermediate cuneiform bones. It is anticipated that he will likely require a walking boot for several weeks.
  WebMD Health News, November 30, 2020
• ACR 2020 RA Remission? Stop Methotrexate, Keep Etanercept In patients with RA whose disease is well controlled by methotrexate and etanercept, withdrawal of methotrexate led to long-term outcomes that were nearly as good as continuation of combination therapy.
  Medscape Medical News, November 24, 2020
• The Curious Case of Three Fingers and Four iPhones The cause of a patient's severe hand dystonia affecting three fingers had physicians stumped, but tenacious clinical investigation eventually led them to make the call on this very unusual case.
  Medscape Medical News, November 23, 2020
• Can a COVID-19 Vaccine Stop the Spread? Good Question. Data from the first two vaccines' phase 3 trials only show that they lessen or prevent disease, not whether they block transmission of the virus.
  Medscape Medical News, November 20, 2020
• COVID-19 Reinfection Unlikely for at Least 6 Months, Study Finds People who've had COVID-19 are highly unlikely to contract it again for at least 6 months after their first infection, according to a British study of healthcare workers on the frontline of the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
  Reuters Health Information, November 20, 2020
• How Much Does a Mask Protect You? The Jury's Still Out So this new study ― which found that these kinds of masks don't appear to offer a big benefit to the wearer ― may feel a little bit like whiplash.
  WebMD Health News, November 20, 2020
• Hundreds of Mayo Clinic Staff Test Positive The 905 Mayo Clinic employees represent more than 30% of the total number of staff cases during the pandemic.
  WebMD Health News, November 19, 2020
• Alert FDA Clears First Rapid At-Home COVID Test Lucira Health’s prescription COVID-19 All-In-One Test Kit can be performed entirely at home — or in point-of-care settings — with results in 30 minutes or less.
  News Alerts, November 18, 2020
• First Guidelines for Post-Op Opioids in Teens, Kids The guidelines for postoperative opioid prescribing for younger patients suggest considering alternatives to opioids for pain control and thinking in terms of stewardship when opioids are needed.
  Medscape Medical News, November 18, 2020
• Fauci Not Advising Biden, Sees No Reason to Quit Trump Now: Reuters Interview Dr Anthony Fauci said he has had no contact with President-elect Joe Biden's coronavirus transition team and sees no reason to quit to join that effort when there is so much to do now to fight the surging pandemic.
  Reuters Health Information, November 13, 2020
• Surging Pandemic Has Ontario Close to Cancelling Non-Essential Surgeries Again Ontario will likely have to suspend non-essential surgeries again starting in 2 weeks, as surging coronavirus cases fill hospital ICUs, according to modeling released by Canada's most populous province on Thursday.
  Reuters Health Information, November 13, 2020
• AHA 2020 SAMSON Pins Most Muscle Pain With Statins on the Nocebo Effect   Some patients really do get side effects, such as muscle pain, from statins, but the trial suggests that '90% of this symptomatic burden is elicited by placebo tablets too,' researchers say.
  Medscape Medical News, November 15, 2020
• Neurologist as Patient: Poor Care Could Have Led to Quadriplegia A neurologist recounts how, after a missed diagnosis in the ER, his medical training saved his life.
  Medscape Medical News, November 12, 2020