Orthopedics
Jan 14, 2021
Various rehabilitation treatments may be offered following surgery for flexor tendon injuries of the hand. Rehabilitation often includes a combination of an exercise regimen and an orthosis, plus othe...
Jan 13, 2021
TUESDAY, Jan. 12, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with knee osteoarthritis, flat, flexible shoes are not superior to stable, supportive shoes, according to a study published online Jan. 12 in th...
Jan 12, 2021
FRIDAY, Jan. 8, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- State laws promoting hospital worker vaccination against influenza may be effective for reducing monthly pneumonia and influenza mortality rates, especially am...
Jan 12, 2021
FRIDAY, Jan. 8, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Hip fracture patients who live alone have higher mortality than those living with a partner, according to a study published online Jan. 6 in the Journal of Bon...
Jan 12, 2021
FRIDAY, Jan. 8, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The COVID-19 vaccine rollout is meeting resistance as many health care workers are refusing shots, the Associated Press reported Friday.It is occurring in nurs...
Jan 12, 2021
FRIDAY, Jan. 8, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has reduced income inequality, with a larger decrease in states that expanded Medicaid, according to a study published in the Jan...
Jan 11, 2021
The lateral collateral ligament (LCL) is the chief stabilizer of the lateral aspect of the knee to varus forces. Studies have confirmed the function of the anterolateral ligament (ALL), which improves...
Jan 11, 2021
To examine the applicability of Chinese Cumberland Ankle Instability Tool (CAIT-C) and Foot and Ankle Ability Measure (FAAM-C) as inclusion criteria recommended by the International Ankle Consortium (...
Jan 11, 2021
Membrane microdomains or rafts, sterol- and sphingolipid-rich microdomains in the plasma membrane have been studied extensively in mammalian cells. Recently, rafts were found to mediate virulence in a...
Jan 11, 2021
Bone is the most frequent metastasis site for breast cancer. As well as dramatically increasing disease burden, bone metastases are also an indicator of poor prognosis. One of the main challenges in i...
Jan 11, 2021
The Christmas Island flying-fox (Pteropus natalis) is the last native mammal on Christmas Island and its population is in decline. Phosphate mining occurs across much of the eastern side of Christmas ...
Jan 11, 2021
There is a sharp increase in depression in females in mid-adolescence, but we do not understand why. Cognitive theories suggest that people with depression have negative biases in recalling self-refer...
Jan 08, 2021
THURSDAY, Jan. 7, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- For patients undergoing hip or knee arthroplasty, a remote monitoring program does not affect the rate of discharge to home but does result in a reduction in...
Jan 07, 2021
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 6, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- With the new year comes another round of prescription drug price hikes, CBS News reported Tuesday.The data come from 46brooklyn Research, a nonprofit compan...
Jan 07, 2021
Trapezium, as a carpal bone positioned at the distal row, is often associated with other wrist injuries such as distal radius fracture. Isolated trapezium fracture, especially in a comminuted form, ra...
Jan 07, 2021
To determine the effect of mobilization with movement (MWM) on pain, ankle mobility and function in patients with acute and sub-acute grade I and II inversion ankle sprain.Randomized placebo controlle...
Jan 07, 2021
Basic psychological needs theory is limited by variable-centered studies focused on linear relationships between perceived needs-supportive/controlling coach behaviors. Therefore, latent profile analy...
Jan 07, 2021
Osteoarthritis (OA) is a heterogeneous disease that is consistently difficult to treat due to the complexity of the regulatory network involved in OA pathogenesis, especially in terms of cartilage deg...
Jan 07, 2021
In 2016, the ICRP launched Task Group 103 (TG 103) for the explicit purpose of developing a new generation of adult and pediatric reference computational phantoms, named "mesh-type reference computati...
Jan 07, 2021
AIDS is a disease caused by a chronic infection of HIV. Recently, long-term control of HIV infection has been demonstrated through the bone marrow transplantation of hematopoietic stem cells (HSC), in...