Orthopedics News

• FDA Clears Device to Protect Kids Against Head Injury The US Food and Drug Administration has cleared a new over-the-counter (OTC) device designed to protect children aged 13 years and older from sports-related traumatic brain injury.
  FDA Approvals, February 26, 2021
• GSK Will Focus on Elderly in Trial to Treat Pneumonia From COVID GlaxoSmithKline will extend a trial testing an experimental rheumatoid arthritis drug on patients suffering from COVID-related pneumonia in order to focus on the elderly.
  Reuters Health Information, February 25, 2021
• How to Convince Patients Muscle Pain Isn't a Statin Achilles Heel The strategy seemed to work in this trial: two-thirds of patients who previously rejected statins, perceiving them as the cause of muscle pain, decided they would go on them again, 'which was quite amazing.'
  Medscape Medical News, February 25, 2021
• No Vascular Benefit of Testosterone Over Exercise in Aging Men Treatment with the hormone, at therapeutic doses, did not impact vascular endothelial function, nor was it additive to exercise in a randomized trial.
  Medscape Medical News, February 25, 2021
• Miami Anesthesiologist Charged in Hate Crime The physician's attorney said the allegations are not true.
  Medscape Medical News, February 24, 2021
• New Data May Help Intercept Head Injuries in College Football An extensive study of concussion and head impact exposure across college football provides broad insight into ways to reduce injuries and educate athletes.
  Medscape Medical News, February 24, 2021
• Docs Become Dog Walkers After COVID-19 Work Loss Many physicians have lost their jobs or have little work during the pandemic and are resorting to a bizarre array of side gigs or outright career overhauls.
  Medscape Medical News, February 24, 2021
• Tree Resin Compound Defeats Drug-Resistant Bacteria in Lab Tests A tree resin extract may prove effective in treating drug-resistant bacterial infections, according to early lab studies.
  Medscape Medical News, February 23, 2021
• Tiger Woods 'Lucky to Be Alive' After Los Angeles Wreck Professional golfer Tiger Woods has multiple injuries to his legs after a Tuesday morning one-vehicle wreck in Los Angeles, his agent, Mark Steinberg, told Golf Digest.
  WebMD Health News, February 23, 2021
• Do Frequent Malpractice Offenders Often Get Away With It? State boards asleep at the switch, report says; beauty doctor settles to save face; botched endoscopic procedure triggers big award.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, February 23, 2021
• COVID-19 Vaccines Were Rushed, but 'All Steps Taken' Infectious disease experts counter a common belief that SARS-CoV-2 vaccines are somehow less safe or ineffective because they were developed quickly.
  Medscape Medical News, February 19, 2021
• Growing Immunity Driving Drop in COVID Cases? Not So Fast, Experts Say Although targeted vaccinations, as well as prior infections, might be curbing spread in some communities, experts agree it is not enough to explain the national decline in cases.
  Medscape Medical News, February 19, 2021
• How to Spot a Fake N95 Counterfeit N95 airborne particle-filtering face masks are on the rise, but recognizing phonies can be easy using a few simple steps.
  Medscape Medical News, February 19, 2021
• Study at Ischgl Ski Resort Finds Lasting Coronavirus Immunity A study of residents in the ski resort of Ischgl, the site of Austria's worst coronavirus outbreak, found at least 8 months after contracting the virus the vast majority of people continued to have some apparent immune protection, scientists said on Thursday.
  Reuters Health Information, February 18, 2021
• Ergonomic Consultation Spares Endoscopists a Pain in the Neck Assessment of position and posture by a physical therapist can help reduce and prevent injury in endoscopists, based on data from a pilot study of eight individuals.
  Medscape Medical News, February 18, 2021
• Fauci: Data 'Favorable' That Vaccines Limit Transmission "There's a direct correlation with viral load and transmission," Fauci says. "In other words, higher viral load, higher transmissibility; lower viral load, very low transmissibility."
  WebMD Health News, February 17, 2021
• Nurse Pinned in Fatal Texas Pileup Climbs Out, Goes to Work Rebecca Benson felt her tires lose their grip on the black ice on the bridge and saw the wall of crashed vehicles in front of her.
  Medscape Medical News, February 16, 2021
• Doctors Who Say No to Opioid Use Face Threats From Patients One patient threatened to shoot Terry Hunt, MD, if physical therapy didn't relieve his pain as effectively as opioids did.
  Associated Press, February 16, 2021
• Docs Earn Millions for Sketchy Referrals; Now What? As government scrutiny of hospital-physician transactions has heightened in recent years, more instances of improper payments have come to light.
  Medscape Medical News, February 16, 2021
• Recently Vaccinated People Need Not Quarantine Post COVID-19 Exposure, CDC Says People who have received the full course of COVID-19 vaccines can skip the standard 14-day quarantine after exposure to someone with the infection as long as they remain asymptomatic, US public health officials advised.
  Reuters Health Information, February 11, 2021