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Orthopedics

Vaccine Rollout Slows as Many Health Care Workers Balk at Shots

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...

Affordable Care Act Reduced Income Inequality in United States

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...

Lateral collateral ligament and anterolateral ligament of the knee - A morphological analysis with orthopedic significance.

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...

Applicability of cutoff scores of Chinese Cumberland Ankle Instability Tool and Foot and Ankle Ability Measure as inclusion criteria for study of chronic ankle instability in Chinese individuals.

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 (...

Raft microdomain localized in the luminal leaflet of inner membrane complex of living Toxoplasma gondii.

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...

In vitro bone metastasis dwelling in a 3D bioengineered niche.

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...

Evidence of chronic cadmium exposure identified in the critically endangered Christmas Island flying-fox (Pteropus natalis).

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 ...

Recall bias during adolescence: Gender differences and associations with depressive symptoms.

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...

Rehospitalization Down With Remote Monitoring After Arthroplasty

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...

Drug Makers Raise Prices on 500 Prescription Drugs

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...

Isolated comminuted trapezium fracture: A case report and literature review.

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...

The effectiveness of mobilization with movement on pain, balance and function following acute and sub acute inversion ankle sprain - A randomized, placebo controlled trial.

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...

Athletes' Psychological Needs and Coaches' Interpersonal Behaviors: A Within-Person Latent Profile Analysis.

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...

d-Mannose suppresses osteoarthritis development in vivo and delays IL-1β-induced degeneration in vitro by enhancing autophagy activated via the AMPK pathway.

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...

Development of skeletal systems for ICRP pediatric mesh-type reference computational phantoms.

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...

Combinatorial Strategies for Long-term Control of HIV Infection.

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...

Bone Quality Linked to Complications After Spinal Fusion

Jan 06, 2021

TUESDAY, Jan. 5, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Abnormalities of trabecular and cortical microarchitecture are associated with skeletal complications in the six months following spinal fusion surgery, accor...

U.S. Health Care Spending Increased 4.6 Percent in 2019

Jan 06, 2021

TUESDAY, Jan. 5, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Health care spending in the United States increased 4.6 percent in 2019, which was a similar rate of growth as that seen in 2018, according to a report publis...

Jaw Osteonecrosis Tied to Treatment for Bone Metastases

Jan 05, 2021

MONDAY, Jan. 4, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The cumulative three-year incidence of osteonecrosis of the jaw (ONJ) is 2.8 percent in cancer patients receiving zoledronic acid for metastatic bone disease (...

Analysis of neurological symptoms and mechanisms in dislocation, sprains and strains of joints and ligaments at neck level.

Jan 04, 2021

Spinal injuries can be divided into contusions, sprains of intervertebral joints, their dislocation and also damage to ligaments and muscles attachment, and fractures. Typical injuries of the cervical...

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