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Denosumab Demonstrated Superiority Over Zometa(R) In Pivotal Phase 3 Head-to-Head Trial In Prostate Cancer Patients With Bone Metastases

Categorie : Bones / Orthopaedics
Amgen (Nasdaq: AMGN) announced that a pivotal, Phase 3, head-to-head trial evaluating denosumab versus Zometa® (zoledronic acid) in the treatment of bone metastases in 1,901 men with advanced prostate cancer met its primary and secondary endpoints... ...

read more Amgen (Nasdaq: AMGN) announced that a pivotal, Phase 3, head-to-head trial evaluating denosumab versus Zometa® (zoledronic acid) in the treatment of bone metastases in 1,901 men with advanced prostate cancer met its primary and secondary endpoints... read more Wed Feb 2010 Wed Feb 2010

Little Effect Of Soy Isoflavones On Bone Loss In Postmenopausal Women: ISU Multi-Center Study

Categorie : Bones / Orthopaedics
A previous six-month study by Iowa State University researchers had indicated that consuming modest amounts of soy protein, rich in isoflavones, lessened lumbar spine bone loss in midlife, perimenopausal women... ...

read more A previous six-month study by Iowa State University researchers had indicated that consuming modest amounts of soy protein, rich in isoflavones, lessened lumbar spine bone loss in midlife, perimenopausal women... read more Wed Feb 2010 Wed Feb 2010

Anorexics Found To Have Excess Fat -- In Their Bone Marrow

Categorie : Bones / Orthopaedics
People with anorexia nervosa, paradoxically, have strikingly high levels of fat within their bone marrow, report researchers at Children's Hospital Boston. Their findings, based on MRI imaging of the knees of 20 girls with anorexia and 20 healthy girls of the same age, appear in the February issue ...

read more People with anorexia nervosa, paradoxically, have strikingly high levels of fat within their bone marrow, report researchers at Children's Hospital Boston. Their findings, based on MRI imaging of the knees of 20 girls with anorexia and 20 healthy girls of the same age, appear in the February issue read more Wed Feb 2010 Wed Feb 2010

Treatment Of Rare Type Of Bone Tumour: Promising Results With Denosumab

Categorie : Bones / Orthopaedics
Denosumab is a targeted therapy to prevent bone loss. It stops progressive bone destruction and tumour spread in some patients with inoperable giant-cell tumour (GCT) of bone. An article published Online First in The Lancet Oncology reports this could change standard treatment practice... ...

read more Denosumab is a targeted therapy to prevent bone loss. It stops progressive bone destruction and tumour spread in some patients with inoperable giant-cell tumour (GCT) of bone. An article published Online First in The Lancet Oncology reports this could change standard treatment practice... read more Wed Feb 2010 Wed Feb 2010

Orthopaedic Researchers Investigating New Treatments For Injured Troops, Civilians

Categorie : Bones / Orthopaedics
For each action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. So after the surge in U.S. troops heading to Afghanistan, there will be an influx of injured veterans returning back home. But the U.S. Department of Defense has recruited its own "soldiers" in the battle against war casualties: a consortium ...

read more For each action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. So after the surge in U.S. troops heading to Afghanistan, there will be an influx of injured veterans returning back home. But the U.S. Department of Defense has recruited its own read more Thu Jan 2010 Thu Jan 2010

Extremity War Injuries Symposium Seeks To Improve Patient Care For Wounded Warriors

Categorie : Bones / Orthopaedics
Since the beginning of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom, there have been nearly 36,000 battle- injured warriors, of which approximately 82 percent suffer extremity trauma. Many of these injuries are complicated by the effects of improvised explosive devices which cause injury patterns d ...

read more Since the beginning of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom, there have been nearly 36,000 battle- injured warriors, of which approximately 82 percent suffer extremity trauma. Many of these injuries are complicated by the effects of improvised explosive devices which cause injury patterns d read more Thu Jan 2010 Thu Jan 2010

Barefoot Running May Be Better For Feet, Joints By Avoiding Heel-Strike

Categorie : Bones / Orthopaedics
An international team of researchers suggests that running barefoot may be better for the feet and joints of the lower limbs because they found people who run barefoot or in minimal shoes strike their foot on the ground in such a way that they have almost no impact collision due to "heel-strike", ...

read more An international team of researchers suggests that running barefoot may be better for the feet and joints of the lower limbs because they found people who run barefoot or in minimal shoes strike their foot on the ground in such a way that they have almost no impact collision due to read more Thu Jan 2010 Thu Jan 2010

Scoliosis In Teenagers: To Brace Or Not To Brace Is Still A Question

Categorie : Bones / Orthopaedics
The use of braces to correct excessive curvature of the spine, or scoliosis, in adolescents is still an area of controversy and is likely to remain that way until there is better evidence, concludes a new review of published research. Although some evidence points toward a benefit from using braces, ...

read more The use of braces to correct excessive curvature of the spine, or scoliosis, in adolescents is still an area of controversy and is likely to remain that way until there is better evidence, concludes a new review of published research. Although some evidence points toward a benefit from using braces, read more Sun Jan 2010 Sun Jan 2010

Hospital For Special Surgery Orthopedic Trauma Team On The Ground In Haiti

Categorie : Bones / Orthopaedics
A team of anesthesiologists, nurses and orthopedic trauma surgeons from Hospital for Special Surgery in Manhattan headed for Haiti on Friday and have been performing surgery and tending to those impacted by the earthquake ever since. Led by David L. Helfet, M.D., and Dean G. Lorich, M.D... ...

read more A team of anesthesiologists, nurses and orthopedic trauma surgeons from Hospital for Special Surgery in Manhattan headed for Haiti on Friday and have been performing surgery and tending to those impacted by the earthquake ever since. Led by David L. Helfet, M.D., and Dean G. Lorich, M.D... read more Sun Jan 2010 Sun Jan 2010

TAU Finds The Female Hormone May Protect Women From Psychosis

Categorie : Bones / Orthopaedics
Many American women are prescribed estrogen to combat the negative effects of menopause, such as bone loss and mood swings. Now, new evidence from a Tel Aviv University study suggests that hormone replacement therapy might also protect them - and younger women - from schizophrenia as well. Prof... ...

read more Many American women are prescribed estrogen to combat the negative effects of menopause, such as bone loss and mood swings. Now, new evidence from a Tel Aviv University study suggests that hormone replacement therapy might also protect them - and younger women - from schizophrenia as well. Prof... read more Sun Jan 2010 Sun Jan 2010

New Gene Discovered For Recessive Form Of Brittle Bone Disease

Categorie : Bones / Orthopaedics
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health and other institutions have discovered the third in a sequence of genes that accounts for previously unexplained forms of osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), a genetic condition that weakens bones, results in frequent fractures and is sometimes fatal. The n ...

read more Researchers at the National Institutes of Health and other institutions have discovered the third in a sequence of genes that accounts for previously unexplained forms of osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), a genetic condition that weakens bones, results in frequent fractures and is sometimes fatal. The n read more Sun Jan 2010 Sun Jan 2010

Society Of Interventional Radiology Supports Treatment For Painful Spine Fractures: Patient Selection Key

Categorie : Bones / Orthopaedics
Given the current controversy over vertebroplasty -- a minimally invasive treatment performed by interventional radiologists in individuals with painful osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures that fail to respond to conventional medical therapy -- what's a patient to do? Trust your medical tea ...

read more Given the current controversy over vertebroplasty -- a minimally invasive treatment performed by interventional radiologists in individuals with painful osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures that fail to respond to conventional medical therapy -- what's a patient to do? Trust your medical tea read more Sun Jan 2010 Sun Jan 2010

Pfizer And Auxilium Announce Commencement Of European Regulatory Review Of XIAFLEXTM For The Treatment Of Dupuytren's Contracture

Categorie : Bones / Orthopaedics
Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) and Auxilium Pharmaceuticals, Inc... ...

read more Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) and Auxilium Pharmaceuticals, Inc... read more Sun Jan 2010 Sun Jan 2010

What Is Rickets? What Causes Rickets?

Categorie : Bones / Orthopaedics
Rickets is a disorder that affects children, causing poor development of the bones in the skeleton. It is usually caused by an extreme and prolonged vitamin D deficiency. The term rickets comes from the Old English word "wrickken", meaning to twist or bend. Rickets was common during Victorian times ...

read more Rickets is a disorder that affects children, causing poor development of the bones in the skeleton. It is usually caused by an extreme and prolonged vitamin D deficiency. The term rickets comes from the Old English word read more Sun Jan 2010 Sun Jan 2010

In Chronic Pain Patients, Higher Opioid Dose Linked To Overdose Risk

Categorie : Bones / Orthopaedics
More and more Americans with chronic pain not caused by cancer are taking medically prescribed opioids like Oxycontin (oxycodone) and Vicodin (hydrocodone). The January 19 Annals of Internal Medicine features the first study to explore the risk of overdose in patients prescribed opioids for chronic ...

read more More and more Americans with chronic pain not caused by cancer are taking medically prescribed opioids like Oxycontin (oxycodone) and Vicodin (hydrocodone). The January 19 Annals of Internal Medicine features the first study to explore the risk of overdose in patients prescribed opioids for chronic read more Tue Jan 2010 Tue Jan 2010

Methodist Research Program First Of Its Kind For Orthopedics

Categorie : Bones / Orthopaedics
A new research program at The Methodist Hospital in Houston is the nation's first dedicated solely to advancing nanotechnology in orthopedics and spine surgery. Dr. Bradley Weiner, chief of spinal surgery at Methodist, is the director of the Spine Advanced Technology Laboratory (SATL). Methodist Dr ...

read more A new research program at The Methodist Hospital in Houston is the nation's first dedicated solely to advancing nanotechnology in orthopedics and spine surgery. Dr. Bradley Weiner, chief of spinal surgery at Methodist, is the director of the Spine Advanced Technology Laboratory (SATL). Methodist Dr read more Tue Jan 2010 Tue Jan 2010

Newer Treatment For Achilles Tendon Disorder Does Not Appear To Be Effective

Categorie : Bones / Orthopaedics
An apparently increasingly used treatment method for a type of Achilles tendon disorder that includes injection of platelet-rich plasma into the tendon does not appear to result in greater improvement in pain or activity compared to placebo, according to results of a preliminary study published in t ...

read more An apparently increasingly used treatment method for a type of Achilles tendon disorder that includes injection of platelet-rich plasma into the tendon does not appear to result in greater improvement in pain or activity compared to placebo, according to results of a preliminary study published in t read more Sun Jan 2010 Sun Jan 2010

Spinal Cement May Provide Real Support For Cancer Patients

Categorie : Bones / Orthopaedics
New technologies used to repair spinal fractures could soon be helping patients suffering from the bone marrow cancer multiple myeloma. A research project led by engineers at the University of Leeds will focus on the disease an incurable cancer of the bone marrow that causes destructive lesions in ...

read more New technologies used to repair spinal fractures could soon be helping patients suffering from the bone marrow cancer multiple myeloma. A research project led by engineers at the University of Leeds will focus on the disease an incurable cancer of the bone marrow that causes destructive lesions in read more Sun Jan 2010 Sun Jan 2010

REPEAT/ Biocomposites Launches GeneX(R)ds. Extending The Reach Of Injectable Bone Grafts

Categorie : Bones / Orthopaedics
Biocomposites, the pioneers in synthetic bone graft materials have launched geneX ds, a dual syringe mixing and minimally invasive delivery system containing geneX, the unique resorbable bone graft material with a negative surface charge. The powder and liquid components of geneX are provided pre-p ...

read more Biocomposites, the pioneers in synthetic bone graft materials have launched geneX ds, a dual syringe mixing and minimally invasive delivery system containing geneX, the unique resorbable bone graft material with a negative surface charge. The powder and liquid components of geneX are provided pre-p read more Sun Jan 2010 Sun Jan 2010

Delivering Stem Cells Improves Major Bone Repair In Rats

Categorie : Bones / Orthopaedics
A study published this week reinforces the potential value of stem cells in repairing major injuries involving the loss of bone structure. The study shows that delivering stem cells on a polymer scaffold to treat large areas of missing bone leads to improved bone formation and better mechanical prop ...

read more A study published this week reinforces the potential value of stem cells in repairing major injuries involving the loss of bone structure. The study shows that delivering stem cells on a polymer scaffold to treat large areas of missing bone leads to improved bone formation and better mechanical prop read more Sun Jan 2010 Sun Jan 2010

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