Orthopedics News

• Experts Share Details Prescribing Avacopan for ANCA Vasculitis Rheumatologists said more data are needed to determine optimal glucocorticoid tapering and treatment duration of avacopan for patients with ANCA-associated vasculitis.
  MDedge News, March 14, 2023
• ACC/WCC 2023 Endurance Exercise Tied to More Coronary Atherosclerosis In the Master@Heart observational study, lifelong endurance athletes had more coronary plaques, including more noncalcified plaques, than those with a similarly low cardiovascular risk profile.
  Medscape Medical News, March 10, 2023
• Measles Exposures in Kentucky Have CDC on Alert CDC health alert advisory urges clinicians to be on the lookout for measles cases.
  Medscape Medical News, March 06, 2023
• Docs Struggle to Keep Up With New Medical Knowledge. Here's Advice Huge numbers of new medical studies, journal articles, and guidelines are constantly being released. Physicians are overloaded with the barrage of new medical information. How can you keep up?
  Medscape Medical News, March 02, 2023
• NP-PA Turf Fights: Where the Relationship Can Improve Nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) generally collaborate well, but in some areas, conflict persists.
  Medscape Medical News, March 02, 2023
• Which Nonopioid Meds Are Best for Easing Acute Low Back Pain? A systematic review of 18 studies showed that muscle relaxants and NSAIDs reduced symptoms after 1 week.
  Medscape Medical News, March 01, 2023
• New Tx Approach for Immunotherapy-Induced Myocarditis A novel combination of high-dose abatacept, ruxolitinib, and mechanical ventilation markedly improved immunotherapy-induced myocarditis survival over current guideline-recommended treatment.
  Medscape Medical News, March 01, 2023
• US vs French Guidelines for Osteoporosis Treatment A rheumatologist who helped draft the French recommendations for the treatment of osteoporosis compares them to the updated American guidelines.
  Medscape Medical News, February 28, 2023
• Bacteremia, Antibodies Link Periodontal Disease and RA Periodontal disease may introduce bacteria into the bloodstream that trigger immune responses in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, new research suggests.
  Medscape Medical News, February 27, 2023
• RWCS 2023 Perioperative Antirheumatic Drug Guideline Contains Caveats Experts say the 2022 ACR/AAHKS guideline for patients undergoing total hip or total knee arthroplasty have a number of caveats that limit the usefulness of the recommendations.
  MDedge News, February 23, 2023
• Spinal Cord Stimulation Restores Post-Stroke Arm, Hand Function A pilot test provides promising evidence that spinal cord stimulation could be "an assistive as well as a restorative approach" for upper-limb recovery after stroke, investigators report.
  Medscape Medical News, February 23, 2023
• Keeping Bones Healthy Through Exercise Impact sports entail mechanical loads that stimulate osteoblasts, thus promoting bone remodeling.
  Medscape Medical News, February 21, 2023
• RWCS 2023 Are Repeat Radiographs Necessary in RA and PsA? "If a patient doesn't achieve remission or very low disease activity, obtaining a radiograph doesn't change what you do … you're going to make a change anyway," Dr. Roy Fleischmann said.
  MDedge News, February 17, 2023
• Autoantibodies Signal Reduced Cancer Risk in Dermatomyositis In patients with dermatomyositis positive for anti-TIF1-γ autoantibodies, the presence of anti-CCAR1 autoantibodies indicate normal rather than elevated cancer risk.
  Medscape Medical News, February 17, 2023
• Former NFL Pro Chris Maragos Wins $43.5 Million Malpractice Claim Jury's decision may prompt medical professionals to think twice before allowing injured athletes to return to the playing field, legal team says.
  Medscape Medical News, February 16, 2023
• Not Always Implemented or Enforced: Harassment Policies at Work Are anti-harassment policies and procedures in the medical workplace working to protect employees and give an effective means to pursue offenders?
  Medscape Medical News, February 16, 2023
• CRA 2023 PsA Prediction Tool Approaches Clinical Utility A tool to identify patients with psoriasis at high risk of psoriatic arthritis appears near to clinical application.
  MDedge News, February 16, 2023
• Underserved Regions Benefit When NPs Have Full Scope: Study More nurse practitioners of color are attracted to working in primary care in rural areas. They are able to serve more patients of color when allowed to practice to the full extent of their authority.
  Medscape Medical News, February 15, 2023
• Health Plans Get Very Poor Scores for Access to Autoimmune Drugs Three out of four insurance plans use policies that result in significant to severe restriction of access to medications for seven autoimmune diseases, according to the analysis.
  Medscape Medical News, February 14, 2023
• Physician Group Staffing Down, Expenses Up, New Reports Show New reports show that higher wages elsewhere induce ancillary staff to leave, groups hire more RNs to fill the gap, and advanced practice clinicians get their own patient panels.
  Medscape Medical News, February 13, 2023