It's a familiar story: you feel a twinge in your back and next thing you know, you can't get out of bed. From back pain to achy joints, musculoskeletal pain, while common, can be life-changing and debilitating. But does it ...
Mar 2, 2023
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the combination of tremelimumab (Imjudo) plus durvalumab (Imfinzi) and platinum-based chemotherapy for adult patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer with no sensitizing ...
Nov 16, 2022
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To improve the health of a community, the first step is to identify its most pressing needs. To that end, in 2022 Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) implemented a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach to ...
Nov 14, 2022
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A systematic review of 42 academic research articles has found that the risk-benefit balance of using opioids to treat musculoskeletal pain in the emergency department (ED) setting remains unclear. The review is published ...
Oct 19, 2022
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Imbruvica (ibrutinib) for pediatric patients with chronic graft versus host disease (cGVHD) after failure of one or more lines of systemic therapy.
Aug 29, 2022
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We often hear the phrase 'growing pains' used by the general public to describe muscle or joint pain in young people and the term is also used by health professionals. However researchers have found there is no consistent ...
Jul 22, 2022
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Adults who received image-guided corticosteroid injections for musculoskeletal pain between April 2020 and February 2021 had a lower incidence of symptomatic COVID-19 than the general population in Massachusetts, according ...
Jul 14, 2022
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Many children in South Africa run the risk of developing foot abnormalities such as hammer-, clawed- and retracted toes and heel spurs because they wear school shoes that don't fit properly.
Jul 14, 2022
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A new Curtin University-developed wearable sensor system has tracked the movement of dancers, providing valuable insights into how they adapt to dance through disabling pain.
May 30, 2022
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A study by researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) found that the antidepressant duloxetine reduced the use of opioid medication when added to a multimodal pain management regimen after knee replacement surgery. ...
May 11, 2022
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