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Obese patients may experience diminished knee pain after gastric bypass surgery

Date: Mar-18-2014
There is a known link between elevated body mass index (BMI) and symptomatic knee osteoarthritis (OA). While patients who have undergone gastric bypass surgery (GBS) - a procedure that closes off much of the stomach and causes food to bypass a portion of the small intestine - typically lose weight, the comparative impact of this weight loss on knee pain and function has not been measured.

Obese patients may experience diminished knee pain after gastric bypass surgery

Date: Mar-18-2014
There is a known link between elevated body mass index (BMI) and symptomatic knee osteoarthritis (OA). While patients who have undergone gastric bypass surgery (GBS) - a procedure that closes off much of the stomach and causes food to bypass a portion of the small intestine - typically lose weight, the comparative impact of this weight loss on knee pain and function has not been measured.

Orthopaedic surgeons should monitor patient mental health status, counsel patients on sleep expectations following fractures

Date: Mar-18-2014
Sleep disturbance is an extremely common complaint following orthopaedic trauma. In a new study presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), researchers assessed the functional status of 1,095 patients following acute fractures to the proximal humerus (shoulder), distal radius (wrist), ankle and tibial plateau (shinbone), using standard orthopaedic tests and assessments.

Orthopaedic surgeons should monitor patient mental health status, counsel patients on sleep expectations following fractures

Date: Mar-18-2014
Sleep disturbance is an extremely common complaint following orthopaedic trauma. In a new study presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), researchers assessed the functional status of 1,095 patients following acute fractures to the proximal humerus (shoulder), distal radius (wrist), ankle and tibial plateau (shinbone), using standard orthopaedic tests and assessments.

Questions raised on safety issues and costs related to 'direct-to-consumer' advertising

Date: Mar-18-2014
Patient requests for specific medications - including requests for brand-name drugs spurred by direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising - have a substantial impact on doctors' prescribing decisions, suggests a study in the April issue of Medical Care. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health."A patient request for a specific medication dramatically increases the rate at which physicians prescribe that medication," according to the new research led by John B. McKinlay, PhD, of New England Research Institutes, Watertown, Mass.

Questions raised on safety issues and costs related to 'direct-to-consumer' advertising

Date: Mar-18-2014
Patient requests for specific medications - including requests for brand-name drugs spurred by direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising - have a substantial impact on doctors' prescribing decisions, suggests a study in the April issue of Medical Care. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health."A patient request for a specific medication dramatically increases the rate at which physicians prescribe that medication," according to the new research led by John B. McKinlay, PhD, of New England Research Institutes, Watertown, Mass.

Patients who lose weight have better joint replacement outcomes

Date: Mar-18-2014
While many overweight patients have the best intentions to lose weight after joint replacement, a study at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) finds that although some are able to achieve this goal, equal numbers of patients actually gain weight after hip or knee replacement. Researchers also determined that patients who lose weight do better in terms of function and activity level two years down the road.

Making gluten-free crackers with hemp flour and decaffeinated green tea leaves

Date: Mar-18-2014
A team of food scientists from University of Novi Sad in Serbia and Guelph Food Research Centre in Canada found that hemp flour, a by-product of cold-pressed hemp oil, in combination with decaffeinated green tea leaves could be used to develop a gluten-free snack cracker with functional properties. The study is in the current issue of Journal of Food Science published by the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT).The market for gluten-free foods with functional properties is growing immensely across virtually all food categories on a global level.

Patients with cleft palate benefit from bone lengthening technique

Date: Mar-18-2014
The Journal of Craniofacial Surgery also reports on an unusual soccer injury and patients who are 'too frail for surgery'A technique called distraction osteogenesis can create increased length of the upper jaw in patients with cleft lip and palate deformities, reports a study in the March issue of The Journal of Craniofacial Surgery, edited by Mutaz B. Habal, MD, published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health.Distraction Technique Used to Lengthen the PalateDr.

Wrist fractures, complications related to healing more common in obese children

Date: Mar-18-2014
Children considered obese are more likely to suffer a distal radius fracture, a bone break near the wrist, and more likely to experience complications related to the healing of the fracture, according to research presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS).