Archive for September, 2008
OrthoView™, the global leader in orthopaedic planning solutions, today announced the release of its latest version 5.2 software. Building on its already feature-rich version 5.1, OrthoView 5.2 includes refinements and additions to its spine deformity assessment module.
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Web-based academic discussions could well be the way forward for cost-effective and tailored continuing education for health professionals. China’s interactive Orthochina.org wiki project for orthopaedic surgeons is an example of the potential of such internet training for continuing medical education.
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Physical activity is the cornerstone of any healthy lifestyle - and especially for people with osteoarthritis as exercise helps maintain good joint health, manage their symptoms, and prevent functional decline. Osteoarthritis, however, often makes physical activity, such as exercise, and even performing daily activities, a challenge.
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There are over four thousand wrist or ankle fractures every day in US and Europe. The cost is not just the medical treatment involved but the loss of quality of life. An improved way to treat the fractures has been developed by CAMBfix, a company started by Cambridge alumni. CAMBfix announced that it has received £65,000 funding from Cambridge Enterprise Seed Funds and matching funds of £65,000k from North East Equity Matching Limited. The
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Sports personality Gary Lineker visited the Royal Free Hospital in London on 24th September to meet the country’s first Leukaemia CARE Clinical Nurse Specialist. Clara Patmore, who started in her new role at the Hampstead hospital this summer, is the first nurse in the UK to be funded by the charity Leukaemia CARE.
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It’s bad enough sitting through the weeks of agony in a cast while your broken limb slowly heals. The itching, the sweat, the inability to sleep in a normal position - or shower - makes it unbearable. Worse still is the period of healing after the cast is removed: only routine sessions of physiotherapy can help you regain strength in the limp muscles.
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IDM Pharma, Inc.
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The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has published final guidance on the use of dabigatran etexilate for the prevention of venous thromboembolic events after elective total hip or elective total knee replacement surgery in adults. NICE produced the guidance as part of its rapid single technology appraisal (STA) work programme.
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GE Healthcare Lunar continues its strong record of continuously improving the customer experience and once again earned the top spot in MD Buyline’s 2nd quarter 2008 customer satisfaction survey on bone densitometry equipment and service.
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A diet that is low in calories but still nutritionally substantial appears to incur weight loss and fat loss without significant bone loss in young adults, according to an article released on September 22, 2008 in Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Biological aging can be slowed by calorie restriction. However, it is also known that chronic energy deficiency diminishes mineral uptake into bones, thereby weakening them.
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