The suffering of those who cannot feel pain
Patrice Abela first knew something was wrong when his eldest daughter was learning to walk and her feet left trails of blood behind her, yet she showed no sign of distress.
Apr 5, 2022
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Patrice Abela first knew something was wrong when his eldest daughter was learning to walk and her feet left trails of blood behind her, yet she showed no sign of distress.
Apr 5, 2022
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Female astronauts could avoid knee injuries during space flight—and better tests, prevention and treatments could be developed for knee osteoarthritis in women here on Earth—based on newly published research on the sex ...
Mar 2, 2022
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Osteoarthritis—a chronic joint disease that causes pain, disability, and loss of function— has remained a major public health concern worldwide in recent years. That's according to a recent analysis published in Arthritis ...
Mar 2, 2022
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(HealthDay)—Early meniscal surgery is not superior to a strategy of exercise and education with the option of later surgery among young, active adults with meniscal tears, according to a study published online Jan. 25 in ...
Feb 16, 2022
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Australians have the highest rates of ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) knee injuries worldwide, and young Australians are most at risk, with a 74 percent increase in knee surgery in people under 25 since 2000. Half the people ...
Jan 24, 2022
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Immune rejection is one of the biggest obstacles to cell therapy. To solve this problem, researchers have been investigating iPS cells that have been gene edited so that they can evade the immune system. While this concept ...
Jul 7, 2021
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Acute kidney injury (AKI) occurred in nearly 20 percent of patients who underwent surgery with implantation of antibiotic-loaded "spacers" and intravenous (IV) antibiotics for the treatment of deep infections after total ...
Mar 29, 2021
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Current approaches to a common and debilitating knee injury that occurs more frequently for women than men have focused for too long on biology at the expense of understanding social factors, say the authors of a new paper ...
Mar 26, 2021
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A new study by investigators at the Shriners Hospital for Children—St. Louis suggests the damaging effects of obesity are not due to body weight but rather come from something much smaller—biochemical signals released ...
Jan 11, 2021
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Almost half of patients who undergo surgery to repair a torn anterior cruciate ligament will develop knee osteoarthritis.
Jan 8, 2021
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