Orthopedics News

• CDC Adds New Medical Conditions to COVID-19 High-Risk List Type 1 diabetes, liver disease, HIV, moderate asthma, overweight, and a number of neurologic conditions are now included, as some states proceed to open up vaccine availability to all adults.
  Medscape Medical News, March 31, 2021
• Physician Side Gigs – What's Right for You? More and more physicians are developing side jobs to bring in extra income or to enjoy their passion projects. Would this be a good path for you to take?
  Medscape Medical News, March 31, 2021
• Inactivity Drives 1 in 14 Deaths Globally, New Data Suggest Healthcare providers should stress the necessity of adequate physical activity to their patients.
  Medscape Medical News, March 31, 2021
• COVID Vaccines Could Lose Their Punch Within a Year, Experts Say Variants will demand vaccine modifications and, in a survey, most epidemiologists say that could happen within a year. Meanwhile, many countries haven't given a single dose.
  Medscape Medical News, March 30, 2021
• Complaints Filed on Lawmaker/Surgeon Who Took Zoom Calls in OR In video clips, the Maryland state legislator, a plastic surgeon, participated in Zoom sessions from the operating room.
  Medscape Medical News, March 29, 2021
• Surgeon Telehealth Use Surges With Pandemic, Then Drops Off Some Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, surgeons' use of telehealth rose across all surgical specialties, but rates declined as in-person care resumed, though they remained above pre-pandemic levels, according to a new study of trends in Michigan.
  Reuters Health Information, March 26, 2021
• Peloton Spawns Wave of High-Tech, High-Dollar Home Fitness Joke: How do you know someone went to Harvard or has a Peloton? They tell you in the first 5 minutes after meeting them.
  Medscape Medical News, March 26, 2021
• Vaccine Mismatch: What to Do After Dose 1 When Plans Change Mixing COVID vaccines from different manufacturers raises questions about safety and efficacy that researchers are now delving into.
  Medscape Medical News, March 25, 2021
• Top JAMA Editor Out Amid Podcast Investigation The American Medical Association's Joint Oversight Committee announced that Howard Bauchner, MD, is on leave beginning at the end of the day.
  WebMD Health News, March 25, 2021
• Sexual, Racial Microaggressions Common in Surgery, Anesthesiology The overwhelming majority of female and racial/ethnic-minority surgeons and anesthesiologists in one medical group reported being subject to racial and sexual microaggressions.
  Medscape Medical News, March 25, 2021
• Saliva Test a Game Changer for Sports-Related Concussion? Researchers have identified a group of microRNA biomarkers in saliva that successfully diagnosed concussion in professional male rugby players.
  Medscape Medical News, March 24, 2021
• Caffeine Before Exercise Helps You Burn Fat Taking caffeine or drinking strong coffee half an hour before aerobic exercise can increase fat-burning, according to a new study in the Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition.
  WebMD Health News, March 24, 2021
• 'Wicked Happy': Med Students Receive Year of Free Tuition Anonymous donors agreed to pay next year's tuition for 60 Texas medical students.
  Medscape Medical News, March 24, 2021
• Bedside Test Can Help Rule Out Septic Arthritis in Native Joints Leucocyte esterase dipstick testing of synovial fluid aspirate can help rule out septic arthritis in adults presenting to the emergency department with a hot, inflamed native joint, report researchers in the UK.
  Reuters Health Information, March 22, 2021
• Total Knee Replacement Cost-Effective, Even With Obesity and Comorbidities Total knee replacement surgery can be a cost-effective procedure for patients with severe obesity and osteoarthritis, even when they also have comorbidities such as cardiovascular disease or type 2 diabetes, a new study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, March 22, 2021
• Abdominal Aortic Calcification May Further Raise Fracture Risk 'The results…suggest that it may be appropriate to expand lateral spine imaging to include those with a significant pre-test probability of higher AAC being present,' wrote rheumatologist John Schousboe, MD.
  Medscape Medical News, March 23, 2021
• Under New Medicare Rule, Same Surgery, Same Place, Different Bill A Trump administration Medicare rule will push some hospital patients into a catch-22.
  Kaiser Health News, March 23, 2021
• Lawyers Battle Over 'Race-Norming' in NFL Dementia Tests Lawyers argue that Black men are being denied awards that average more than $500,000 because of testing methods that assume Black people have lower cognitive function than White people.
  Associated Press, March 22, 2021
• Noninvasive Vagus Nerve Stimulation Tolerated, Effective for Rheumatoid Arthritis Noninvasive vagus nerve stimulation is safe and effective as an intervention for rheumatoid arthritis, a small proof-of-concept study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, March 19, 2021
• Emergency Surgery Complications, but Not Mortality, Linked With Surgeons' Experience Emergency surgery patients cared for by early career 'acute-care' surgeons have similar mortality rates as patients with more senior surgeons but are more likely to need to go back to the operating room, a new study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, March 19, 2021