Friday, August 12th, 2011
Total joint replacement surgeries can help relieve joint pain common in people with conditions like osteoarthritis. But sometimes, the debris from prosthetic joints leads to aseptic loosening, or disintegration of surrounding bones. In 2009, a Wayne State University researcher determined that the anti-inflammatory antibiotic erythromycin can prevent and treat such ...
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Tuesday, July 19th, 2011
Vigorous sports activities, like basketball, during childhood and adolescence can cause abnormal development of the femur in young athletes, resulting in a deformed hip with reduced rotation and pain during movement. This may explain why athletes are more likely to develop osteoarthritis than more sedentary individuals, according to Dr. Klaus ...
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Sunday, July 10th, 2011
Gender may be associated with an increased risk of cartilage lesions in anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injured knees, according to research presented at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's Annual Meeting in San Diego. "Having articular cartilage lesions (a hole or rough spot in the cartilage of the knee) ...
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Sunday, April 24th, 2011
Aging often means bad knees, and bad knees often mean osteoarthritis, a common and painful disability that affects more than 20 million Americans. Tammy Haut Donahue, associate professor in mechanical engineering at Michigan Technological University, is a researcher with an ambitious goal: to prevent osteoarthritis. The condition results ...
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Saturday, April 23rd, 2011
Convergence Pharmaceuticals Ltd announced that its first-time-in-man Phase 1 trial of a new, first in class calcium channel blocker (CNV2197944) for patients with chronic pain has started ahead of schedule. This randomized, placebo controlled study aims to determine the safety, tolerability and pharmacokinetics of single ascending orally administered doses of ...
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